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Phoenix
20-06-13, 22:22
Trawling for a surname subject to mistranscription, I discovered that Send with Ripley had rather a lot of marriages where the spouse's name was unknown, as was the individual's surname.

As this seemed a trifle unusual, I checked an entry:

http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/4779/40761_312071-00169/604163?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk% 2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3dSurreyMarriages%26rank%3d1%26 new%3d1%26MSAV%3d1%26msT%3d1%26gss%3dangs-d%26msgpn__ftp%3dAlbury%252c%2bSurrey%252c%2bEngla nd%26msgpn%3d87688%26msgpn_PInfo%3d8-%257c0%257c0%257c3257%257c3251%257c0%257c0%257c0%2 57c5286%257c87688%257c0%257c%26uidh%3d9vh%26gl%3d% 26gst%3d%26hc%3d50%26fh%3d1400%26bsk%3dBEH4cbsIgAA SqwAAAFM-61-&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults

They have entered baptisms as marriages:rolleyes:

I am sure this will have happened with other datasets in the past, and hopefully it will be corrected, but for the present it does mean that some people will be hiding from you!

Langley Vale Sue
23-06-13, 16:59
Aha, that will be why I can't find a marriage for some of my 5x G grandfather's siblings in Send with Ripley. :(