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18-11-14, 19:00
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Surname mis-transcription!
I have found potential ancestors in Dartmouth, Devon, and luckily the PRs are on FMP.
I couldn't find the marriage of my man William Jackman before 1612 but then found a Boyd's Marriage. I wondered why it wasn't showing up on the search. I put just the year in and got the relevant page and found the marriage at the bottom of the page. The name is pretty clear to me: http://search.findmypast.co.uk/recor...ar%2f61684%2f2 however FMP have it transcribed as "William Fartman"!  Perhaps they need lessons in old handwriting! 
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18-11-14, 19:05
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Can you put in corrections on FMP like you can on ancestry, Elizabeth?
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KiteRunner Family History News updated 21st May Lancashire Non-conformist records new on Ancestry
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18-11-14, 19:06
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I have just done two, Kate. There is another one just above - Thomas Jackman.
They are meant to get back to you within 90 days, but I haven't heard a peep out of them since the new site was launched. They used to get back to you almost immediately.
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19-11-14, 10:06
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Quote:
couldn't resist that!)
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19-11-14, 10:46
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Well, you never know....
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01-01-15, 21:53
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A bit late on the thread, but I got stuck on an ancestor's death because the GRO had transcribed the surname Lydiard as SYDIARD. Since the name also crops up in censuses with the y and i transposed, I hadn't looked for such an odd mistake. And there's no way to get either the GRO or FreeBMD to change it. A postem on FreeBMD and a note on Ancestry was the best I could do. The local RO could only provide a typed certificate because the register was too fragile to copy.
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11-01-15, 10:21
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Sounds like a lot of hot air to me!!!!
And in my experience, all kinds of errors can be made in transcriptions. I've found my Smoothys as Lenorthey (so S and L are often confused) my Purveys as Curveys - the Victorian obsession with flourishy capitals instead of plain blocks means that the loops are often mistaken as part of a letter. But my all-time example of how any letter can be misread is a family of Stevens mistranscribed as Howard - not a single letter right. When I looked at the image, it could have said anything. I also recently found my grandmother as victim of a typo, in a marriage index as Kgladys instead of Gladys. So you do need to keep on your toes!
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Love from Nell researching Chowns in Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Brewer, Broad, Eplett & Pope in Cornwall Smoothy & Willsher/Wiltshire in Essex & Surrey Emms, Mealing + variants, Purvey & Williams in Gloucestershire Barnes, Dunt, Gray, Massingham, Saul/Seals/Sales in Norfolk Matthews & Nash in Warwickshire
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11-01-15, 10:57
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And all those boys called Geroge! Anyone ever met one?
OC
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11-01-15, 12:12
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Today looking for Alfred found him transcribed as Aflred ...
Some bell is ringing wasn't there a king called Aflred!!
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