RosJThe genius of #Ancestry has turned this reference to 'A Great Battell' at Kineton in Warwickshire in 1642, into a burial record for a Theresa. A. Baffel. 🤨
It's usually blind transcribers at #Ancestry I'm tutting at in despair, but this time it's #FindmyPast, who have transcribed a Wigan ancestor's occupation as:
'Hindu in Bottom Mill'.
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Looking at the original it's actually 'minder', and in fact it's for the person above, not even my ancestor.
An all round fail and a reminder to always ALWAYS look at the original and never trust other people's transcriptions!!
I'm tearing my hair out with posters on #Ancestry today.
Researching one particular family, this moning I've already discovered an uncle and his nephew whose lives have been incorrectly swapped, with the uncle's death now recorded at 117. And in another branch, a Reverend has been mistaken for a Sir in the family two centuries earlier, so that all later sons have been knighted as well. 😫
This is why I don't trust Ancestry trees!!