Phoenix
08-04-23, 09:48
Chasing up Mary Jane Domoney in 1861. Her surname can be spelt (and transcribed) in a variety of ways, so losing sight of 17 year old servant was not altogether surprising.
There was no trace on Ancestry, so I looked on Find My Past.
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record/browse?id=gbc%2f1861%2f1333%2f00010a
She's the last entry on the page, perfectly clear, so I checked the reference.
Ancestry code their entries differently, so I looked for different names
Andrew Vernon
Georgina Luff
Mary Prockter
No joy.
Then I searched for Blandford Forum. And I discovered that the first SEVEN pages of entries are not merely unindexed, but missing.
If anyone else has spotted this, Ancestry has not corrected it in the many years since the records were first put online.
In theory, both sites should have the same total of entries. Does anyone know how the numbers differ? I can forgive transcription errors or illegible entries, but the lack of controls to ensure that every page is filmed does worry me.
There was no trace on Ancestry, so I looked on Find My Past.
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record/browse?id=gbc%2f1861%2f1333%2f00010a
She's the last entry on the page, perfectly clear, so I checked the reference.
Ancestry code their entries differently, so I looked for different names
Andrew Vernon
Georgina Luff
Mary Prockter
No joy.
Then I searched for Blandford Forum. And I discovered that the first SEVEN pages of entries are not merely unindexed, but missing.
If anyone else has spotted this, Ancestry has not corrected it in the many years since the records were first put online.
In theory, both sites should have the same total of entries. Does anyone know how the numbers differ? I can forgive transcription errors or illegible entries, but the lack of controls to ensure that every page is filmed does worry me.