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From: Patricia Salter <>
Subject: Re: [Ess] 1911 census
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:31:22 +0000
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Quarter of a million errors found, wow you must spend 24/7 looking for errors on Ancestry, must be why you dont have time for comma's and full stops in your messages. Oh and by the way you dont have to live in the Phillipines to help with transcriptions, just check out Ancestry.com World Archives Project. > From:
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> Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:33:15 +0000
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> Subject: Re: [Ess] 1911 census
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> You fail to understand the issue Ancestry staff appear to fail to understand
> birthplaces I have checked entries for a one name study and first error was
> there appeared to quite a few entries with birthplace of Wall which on
> viewing image was Madron
> Then I spotted Ore which turned out to be Forest Hill then Oxton or Hoxton
> as it should
> Swansea as it should be was shown as Wansen or on another entry Panacea
> Chiswick shown as Wick
> If you were given this level of service anywhere else you might find
> Ancestry facing trading standards getting involved
> I have reported over 1/4 million errors on 1837-1915 births/marriage records
> where Holborn is misspelt as Holbron You can discount a few as typing errors
> but to have this amount surely isnt acceptable as is moving Dover to
> Cornwall renaming Great Yarmouth as Garmouth and relocating it to Norway


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