I record it exactly has the censustaker wrote it. If I know it is wrong,
then I put it as an AKA. I do not use what the transcriber wrote. I look
at the census myself and write what I see.
michele
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Horner" <maryhor...@shaw.ca>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2009 3:34 AM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Transcribing census errors?
When the enumerator has made errors, most commonly in spelling the
surname,
or when you are getting the info online where the transcriber has made
errors in interpreting the handwriting, do you copy into Legacy what is
actually there or what should have been there - the correct spelling? My
family has a unique name wherein anyone in Canada with the same spelling
is
related and the spelling has always been consistent within the family
going
back over 200 years, but the errors in census are amazing. I would never
have found the family had they not lived on the same homestead for 5
generations. When I finally found a census where the name was correct, the
enumerator was my great-grandfather!
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