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I'll see what they say when they reply, Merry. I'm not very impressed - they'd transcribed her date of birth incorrectly and I've found several other errors in other households when the images are quite clear.
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Love from Nell researching Chowns in Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Brewer, Broad, Eplett & Pope in Cornwall Smoothy & Willsher/Wiltshire in Essex & Surrey Emms, Mealing + variants, Purvey & Williams in Gloucestershire Barnes, Dunt, Gray, Massingham, Saul/Seals/Sales in Norfolk Matthews & Nash in Warwickshire |
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I understood that the people who did the transcribing were not allowed to see the page images, so all columns of data were transcribed separately and then the jigsaw of columns was joined together afterwards, I'm surprised we can find anything really!
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If your father was in the army he won't appear in the register.
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I can't find my father who died in 2010. My mother's still alive and her name doesn't appear - I know she was still at home in 1939. Her brother is also still hidden and he died in 2014.
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right person(!) I'd forgotten army personnel were not shown. Don't know for sure he was in at that time but it seems likely. Either that or out of the country - I know he spent some time abroad in the 30s. |
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Did her first name begin with G and born 1916?
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You've got her, Merry! But then I knew you would.
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Findmypast have replied to my posts on their Facebook page, but just with the usual "email support with the details and we will look at getting these particular records closed". They are not acknowledging that they have made a big mistake with this update. I wonder what is the best way to make sure that they actually take action on this.
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Goodness knows.
I suppose because of this apparently massive error it would be the wrong time for me to point out to them that I have been waiting a whole year for them to correct the dozen or so pages surrounding my mum's entry that have the names from one set of pages connected to the dates of birth and occupations from a different set of pages? I know you found some 'famous' living people on the database. Maybe we could find more and hit them (FMP) with a new name every week?!!
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They asked me to email in the details but they have at least said it is so they can look into what has gone wrong, not just so they can close those few records. But since I had already posted the names of famous people affected by this on their Facebook page, they could have just looked them up themselves.
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