Genealogy Chat

Just had a rather snooty reply from this person, saying he does it all the time.
When a woman marries, she legally becomes known by her husband´s surname(or did years ago). Therefore if she is in a census under her married name, that is how it should be transcribed. To use her maiden name just confuses the issue........jn my opinion.

If I'm searching for a married woman in the census I am looking for her married name NOT her maiden name. If I look for a second marriage then her maiden name won't help me unless I can see the fathers name on the entry.

I've come across pages and pages of added maiden names on ancestry - must have taken ages to add. Ok if you trust other people but we all have instances of finding other people adding incorrect info into their trees.

I have quite a lot of amendments in my lines (Ancestry) where the spelling has changed over the years, possibly due to a mixture of dialect and illiteracy and peope have changed it to the modern spelling,fortunately Ancestry do show both but I agree with wildchild, it is irritating !

FMP have a different way which I find equally annoying

I have sent corrections for family transcriptions where I know the family names and these are clearly obvious to me ,but the transcriber has decided the writings says something different

Have often got a reply from FMP to say they have looked at my correction but decided THEY ARE RIGHT. so won't accept my correction

I only know about Ancestry, where when this happens it isn't a problem because both get displayed and used in searches.

What is irritating is when someone adds an incorrect correction when the original is right. In that case I add an additional correction with supporting evidence. Recently I did that where a name beginning with L, had been corrected to begin with an S. Admittedly the L did look like an S but there were other obvious Ls on the sheet that I could point to and I did know that the name should begin with L.

Unfortunately it happens all the time that people feel the maiden name should be added.

Agree that the record is correct for the census

Have just come across an entry on 1841 census where the woman has been quite correctly enumerated in her married name, but another researcher has sent in an amendment to show her under her maiden name, even though she had been married for several years.
I contacted the person to point out that the record was correct as it stood, but he insists he wants to show her maiden name,
Not going to argue, but very confusing for anyone in the future.