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Member Since: December 2004 Posts: 10,522 Send Message	Potty	Report	12 Aug 2016 14:16
	I have just found another reason to always check images if you can! I have a Shropshire burial record from Ancestry which Is in fact a baptism! I have an image of the original parish record and there is no burial for the person concerned, only a baptism on the same date that Ancestry gives for the burial.
Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 49,504 Send Message	Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it	Report	13 Aug 2016 08:15
	I always check the image where possibe and submit corrections even if it's only for look ups I doing for others Ancestry London electoral rolls are hopelessly mistranscribed addresss
	Researching: Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957
Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 7,819 Send Message	InspectorGreenPen	Report	13 Aug 2016 11:39
Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 7,819 Send Message	Some of the Ancestry records cover Births Marriages and Burials in the same data set so it is not necessarily an error as such. However it does stress the need to check carefully.
Member Since: December 2004 Posts: 10,522 Send Message	Potty	Report	13 Aug 2016 11:52
	Shirley, I think the reason the Electoral Rolls are so badly transcribed is because they were done by OCR and not transcribed by people.