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    1. Re: [SFHG] William Pestifold
    2. John Cain
    3. Lesley. You will already have had the answers you want from others on your Pestifold query. This is just a reminder to all SFHG members of the problems when using Ancestry website. When I first read your e-mail I immediately looked for Pestifold on Ancestry, using the library version at Birmingham Library. Ancestry list no PESTIFOLD on any of their censuses. Clearly that is wrong because Marion Woolgar found the family for you at Brighton in the 1851 census. This clearly illustrates the problems with Ancestry's American volunteers who do not know English placenames or surnames. How Ancestry transcribed PESTIFOLD in the 1851 census is anybody's guess. When I looked up my ggggrandfather in the 1861 census - he, wife & 2 children - 2 different surnames were used plus 3 different places of birth, all of which should have shown Lewes Southover. Regards. John Cain 10370

    08/08/2008 03:33:24