tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post8888756266921908810..comments2024-03-13T21:06:16.936-04:00Comments on Olive Tree Genealogy Blog: Problems With 1921 Census Indexing & How To Work Around ThemOlive Tree Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381110998759242462noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post-64731699834007121832017-08-11T15:52:24.363-04:002017-08-11T15:52:24.363-04:00This has brought back memories of how frustrating ...This has brought back memories of how frustrating it was to find ancestors in the 1921 census. Then they were indexed the method used to 'read. the census in Quebec or wherever the census was in French, understood Mlle and Mme to be the given name. There were pages and pages like that. I spent time sending correction after correction into Ancestry. Then and this was not the fault of Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00402291424925557497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post-25075547913043950642014-05-11T17:43:20.114-04:002014-05-11T17:43:20.114-04:00Corrections can also help Ancestry give you hints ...Corrections can also help Ancestry give you hints of possible other records that might be related. It won't work immediately but hopefully in a few days they will update their indexes and you can see if the system has accepted your suggestions. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post-21420647276946948692013-11-04T13:59:34.868-05:002013-11-04T13:59:34.868-05:00Thanks for the reminder to add corrections in Ance...Thanks for the reminder to add corrections in Ancestry. I must go back and do that. <br /><br />I had a heck of a time finding my Bertolo ancestors and I can't blame the transcribers. One family certainly looks like Borthillo. And my grandfather and his brother were enumerated as Bertand in two separate abodes. Bertrand's from Italy. Go figure! <br /><br />I also underestamated the extentJim's Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03158792309730805894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post-1603085448809670172013-11-01T12:49:07.034-04:002013-11-01T12:49:07.034-04:00To Craig - yes, you can post a correction even if ...To Craig - yes, you can post a correction even if it was the enumerator that put it down wrong. There is an option for putting "incorrect in original" as the reason for your correction.<br /><br />Justina "-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post-72287254967664912072013-10-31T09:40:55.636-04:002013-10-31T09:40:55.636-04:00Lorine, I've found that I can now make a corre...Lorine, I've found that I can now make a correction simply by double-clicking the name in the index.Jackie Corriganhttp://hoguegirardin.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post-41976993196863179082013-10-31T07:19:25.736-04:002013-10-31T07:19:25.736-04:00Took me forever to find my grandma!
They had her l...Took me forever to find my grandma!<br />They had her listed as Pent instead of Pearl which may have made sense but by looking at the record you can clearly read what it says.<br />Whoever was adding the info must have been in a rush from all the errors.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post-11089210442894963982013-10-30T15:08:39.127-04:002013-10-30T15:08:39.127-04:00Lorine,
I found my people because I knew where th...Lorine,<br /><br />I found my people because I knew where they lived; however, the index was "wrong" so that they could not be found by using the index. In this case, the transcriber had correctly transcribed what the census-taker had written, but that was an incorrect spelling. Can indexes handle cases where the census spelling is incorrect?<br /><br />Craig.Saskeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11611596604237201580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post-53318321582924865002013-10-30T11:41:33.050-04:002013-10-30T11:41:33.050-04:00Some great tips, Lorine,thanks for sharing them. I...Some great tips, Lorine,thanks for sharing them. I was eagerly awaiting 1921 to find some family members who moved from North Battleford, Saskatchewan to Vancouver sometime after 1916. I was prepared to browse North Battleford, but there was no way I was going to tackle Vancouver without an index! Fortunately the names were Collins and Peeebles, and I found them easily, but I spotted and Audrey Collinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17109060807297085410noreply@blogger.com