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wrong ethnicity and wrong spelling of mother's name

wrong ethnicity and wrong spelling of mother's name

Posted: 19 Feb 2015 12:47AM GMT
Classification: Query
I see stuff like this all the time but this time it happens to be my MOTHER!
Can't people READ who are transcribing?
They wrote she was Canadian (not true) and misspelled my grandmother's first name too.
Too bad the original image isn't available.
No wonder people have a hard time finding family.

Re: wrong ethnicity and wrong spelling of mother's name

Posted: 31 Mar 2015 9:07PM GMT
Classification: Query
Lots of transcriptions are wrong. Lots of original records are wrong too. You didn't indicate what record you were talking about, but it always best to check the original if at all possible. If it was a census record, for example, the information might have been supplied by someone else in the household who did not know the correct facts.
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