Ancestry transcriptions
My search for early Jeffcoat ancestors is taking me into Warwickshire, and I am using Ancestry's invaluable Warwickshire PRs. However, the transcriptions are rubbish.
I'm searching for a birth/baptism for John Jeffcoat (and variant spellings) for the time frame 1640 to 1665. I haven't found anything that has got me excited yet, and I'm searching using Jef*. This one caught my eye as I had exhausted the obvious Jeffcoat ones. http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin...coff=6+7+30+42 Firstly, I noticed that the surname is in fact Jeffcot, not Jeffres. Secondly, I think the boy is called Job, and not John! It means I shall have to trawl through a lot more now, because I can't trust what they have put. |
Yes, he is Job, and the surname is Jeffcot. I'm sure I have made some mistakes in my FreeREG transcriptions while getting used to the handwriting etc but ancestry are notorious for them.
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These are quite good fun:
http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/47...nSearchResults I was looking for Broomfields. Joane Wolfertz = Joane Wakefeild Dorothy Beverage=Dorothy Veere Jane Omlid = Jane Gyles Jane Cottons=Jane Collyns but Elathotab Bromfeld is my favourite. I can often guess what it is supposed to be but this one foxed me (and they are not even a Broomfield:D) |
My guess is Nicholas - is that correct?
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Yep - and Bromfeld should be Brymsted.
I know the handwriting is challenging (and I have read Worsfold as Broomfield before now) but a whole page does give the transcriber a chance to contrast and compare. |
I think Ancestry should give subscribers a discount based on the transcription errors they report. Sometimes you can just see what the name is meant to be, without even looking at the image.
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