Genealogy Chat

Ah, got you, you add a correction to the name so that people see the little pointer - ah right - yes good idea.

We did have a thread on here a couple of years or so back about the rude and silly names we had found on ancestry, unfortunately someone complained and it was removed. BUT I see amazon is marketing a similar thing in a book at the mo.

"Wrong dob" is the name-correction thing I enter when someone's age has been bizarrely mistranscribed -- making him/her look old enough to be his/her parents' parent, e.g.

It doesn't fix the error, because the only thing that can be fixed (for searching purposes) at Ancestry is the name. But it does flag the name as having something wrong, and then in the correction notes one can explain the error in the age, which isn't apparent unless one looks at the image itself.

My grx3 grparents' household in 1841 made no sense. There was a Hannah there who was aged 45, and they were 50 and 55. I was looking around for a sister of my grx3 grfather -- and then when I looked at the image I saw she was 15, not 45. So adding the name-correction note to correct her age meant that anyone else led astray by the mistranscription could see the fix.

This apart from the fact that they were Campions mistranscribed as Campbells ... so I'd only found them by searching for camp* ...

I've corrected hundreds of names at Ancestry who are completely unrelated to me, including dozens of those Mouck Morck Monoh Morek Manch people who are really Moncks (and their Monk counterparts, the Mouk Mork people). For months, I didn't realize that nobody could contact me unless I "activated" my account. I did, and I started getting messages from people whose ancestors' names I'd fixed, who assumed I was a cousin. Now, so as not to disappoint, I always say "I am not related; found the error while looking at someone else on the page" or some such.

I collect the errors and take them home to Bob at night. Francis Pukes Montoger (found while searching for my mythical Francis Monck as francis mon*) is one of my favourites. Francis Dupré Montagu, a much more resounding name. Nimrod Squelch, it turns out, is real, like Mr. Shirt.

Our all-time favourite, though, is what was done to poor Mercy Tucker. I see I haven't fixed her, as I have poor Mary Piss, who it turns out wasn't even married to Mr. Pix, she was married to another servant in his household. I've fixed a number of Mary's clan, and the related clan Tuck.

The problem with Mary is her name really does look like what it's transcribed as. Oh, I see what it is. Fricker, I'll betcha. ... Dunno, can't find her anywhere else, so she may be doomed.

Alien's a good one! My gr-grmother Annie had become Amiel. Makes her easy to find when I need to.

How weird, I mean were used to the strange transcription (I always feel very kindly for reporting a correction for an unrelated Alice who was transcribed Alien) but I mean it looks like they actually chose that name.

Oh, and I dont follow how you search ancestry using wrong dob and why do you do it anyway please?

Let me add one for you that I had just spent half an hour guffawing myself silly over when I read your post last night.

I was searching the censuses at Ancestry for given name "wrong dob" -- what I enter as a name correction when I find a child in a household who is allegedly older than the parents, for instance, because of a mistranscribed age. (I found that another Katharine uses "wrong age" for the same purpose. She must be a virgo too.)

So Ancestry brought up approximate matches too. Which is how I met Mr. -- and I checked it in the GRO births index, and it's not a mistranscription -- Mr. Wrong Shirt.

Name: Wrong Chadwick Shirt
Year of Registration: 1854
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
District: Ashton Under Lyne
County: Cheshire, Lancashire
Volume: 8d
Page: 397


Wife calls from kitchen: Dear, what are we going to name this child?

Husband, rummaging through his closet in the dark: (Dang, wrong shirt).


Clerk at registry office: So Mr. Shirt, your son's name is to be registered as Chad?

Mr. Shirt: Wrong, Chadwick.


Oh well. Remember the 2000 US election? He could have ended up as Hanging Chad Shirt.


Wife: What are we naming the baby, dear?

Husband, thinking she said "what are you doing in there, dear?": Hanging shirt.


Apparently he called himself Wrong C. Shirt. Who would blame him?

Hi George
Well I must say it has given a lot of people a laugh and that can't be bad. I am still laughing. It has cheered up my day
Val

I forgot to say it gave me a laugh too .........
Val

There was I thinking, oh, this one sounds interesting, obviously a chinese girl married to an english bloke (Mr Page)! LOL, what a disappointment

Hi all

Well it was nearly I in the morning and I didn't spot that !!! It was the WONG title WASN'T IT . My thanks to all you ladies for your help it is much appreciated
Val

LOL, sorry, but when I read that title, I thought you were looking for Chinese ancestors :)

Just for future ref -- the 1881 census is the one census you *can* search by street address.

Searching the 1881 Wales census for address "bridge street" in Merthyr Tydfil, you get 220 results, in alphabetical order, of course. Searching for "53 bridge street" brings up the Hughes family.

I didn't check the images, but presumably hitting randomly along Bridge Street could get you there too. ;)

Got to go to bed now will check back tomorrow Thanks folks
nite nite Val

Hi Has anyone else had this problem.On the 1881 Wales census for Thomas Yorath b1839 and SarahYorath b 1835 I have found the family but when I view the census page it brings up the wrong page It states their address as 55 Bridge st Merthyr Tydfil Glam I do not know how to search an address on the census. I have viewed All the pages in that batch.,and cannot find Bridge st.The info that I have is from the first bit that says view record so I know this is them but I like to have copy of actual census entry as well. Any ideas folks? Thank you for reading this Val