<<Has anyone else had problems with mistranscriptions in the census indices?>> I have, tons... I've had to go through 100's of pages one family at a time, district by district, to find family members I KNEW were there! way too often to find the surname transcribed TOTALLY wrong and not even close to what the surnames actually were. Sometimes totally different names all together NOTE: Make sure when you find a transcription error, especially ones as bad as this, that you submit the correct name to ancestry.com, to spare the next person totally lost from what the rest of us are going through. I've also made connections with other family members who see my ancestry ID on the correction when ancestry updates the listings to searchable that I may have never made any other way! As an aside ;-), my husband is such a stickler about spellings he used to joke he'd proof the local weekly newspaper for free. Too bad they didn't hire him to do a lot of these transcription! ;-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "B Gartside" <brugart@mts.net> To: <tnweakle@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 12:27 PM Subject: Re: [TNWEAKLE] Census transcriptions >A member of my NEWHOUSE family, John NEWHOUSE, was indexed as John N. > HENDERSON in the 1880 Weakley Co. TN Census, Dist. 14, in the > ancestry.com > index and also in census on www.familysearch.org . I finally came > across > them, accidentally, when browsing the district looking for someone else. > To me, the name was, definitely NEWHOUSE, and, of course, I was already > familiar with his wife and children's names and ages, which matched, but > transcribers who didn't know the family, evidently, read the surname > differently. I'm pretty sure that some of the people I've been unable to > find in census in certain years are probably there but with a totally > different name -- one that even Soundex wouldn't be able to find. The > transcription of NEWHOUSE to HENDERSON is probably the biggest mistake > I've > come across in any transcription. > Brenda > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Richard Saunders" <saunders@utm.edu> > To: <tnweakle@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 8:34 AM > Subject: [TNWEAKLE] Census transcriptions > > >>I had a man in from Michigan doing research on the IVIE family from >> Gardiner. He had been frustrated because they could not be located in >> Ancestry. After checking the film we discovered the name had been >> mistranscribed as EVIE. >> >> That got me thinking--transcription is a subjective art, but generally >> pretty accurate. Has anyone else had problems with mistranscriptions in >> the census indices? I wonder how wide-spread the issue is. >> >> ***** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ***** >> Richard Saunders, Curator >> Special Collections/Univ. Archives 731-881-7094 >> Univ. of Tennessee at Martin fax 731-881-7074 >> Martin, Tenn. 38238 saunders@utm.edu >> >> ***** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ***** >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> TNWEAKLE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNWEAKLE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >