Correcting errors on Ancestry

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Member Since: November 2005 Posts: 2,399 Send Message	ElizabethK	Report	14 Sep 2012 12:44
	How does one notify them of an incorrect census transcription ?
Member Since: August 2003 Posts: 63,513 Send Message	ErikaH	Report	14 Sep 2012 12:56
	Just click on 'Add alternative information'............
Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 49,504 Send Message	Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it	Report	14 Sep 2012 12:59
	When you have the transcription on screen ,over on the left under Page Tools is Add Alternate Information. click on that and follow the Update . you can just add in the remarks column any correction that isnt covered by the headings listed
	Researching: Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957
Member Since: November 2005 Posts: 2,399 Send Message	ElizabethK	Report	14 Sep 2012 15:09
	Thank you Shirley -did not see that :-)