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Member Since: December 2002 Posts: 1,448 Send Message	Jan.	Report	25 Jan 2013 10:54
	I'm in the middle of correcting a transcription on the 1891 census on Ancestry on the comment section. Just wondering if I should leave my name on the correction or just stick to the facts? What do other people do when they correct things on Ancestry?
Member Since: October 2003 Posts: 714 Send Message	Inky1	Report	25 Jan 2013 11:08
Member Since: October 2003 Posts: 714 Send Message	Jan, Do not include your name. Your Ancestry username will appear against the correction. Thus anyone reading it will be able to contact you via. the Ancestry message system.
Member Since: December 2002 Posts: 1,448 Send Message	Jan.	Report	25 Jan 2013 11:27
	Thanks Inky
Member Since: April 2006 Posts: 2,822 Send Message	DazedConfused	Report	25 Jan 2013 19:25
	I never leave anything in the comments box except an explanation. In many cases I am not even amending my own family. But noticing an error when searching for my own lot will spot an error, look at the original and if happy to do so will submit and amendment, and I will then go to Findmypast and see if the entry there needs any corrections. Every little helps ...... ;-)
	Researching: We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars, Oscar Wilde New avatar, my dad age about 3/4 months, could have been worse, it could have been the awful nude on a rug!!