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So, do I hold the record? ;) I might have already - I submit corrections all the time for things I notice when I'm doing searches for TTF threads - but I think this might send me over the top.

The other day, I got an email saying

Acceptance of a request for 107 corrections to FreeBMD entries


What??? I thought. How bored was I that night? I've sometimes got emails accepting two or three corrections I did at the same time, but 107? Who were those names? None I recognized!

Then I scrolled through, and saw that all of them were in volume 6d and had been transcribed as volume 6c. I think I must have noticed it when trying to match up a couple, when the spouse wasn't in the list. I see they've corrected a couple of names along the way.

Yup, all same place, same year and quarter, same volume. Maybe I mentioned that when I made the submission ... but probably not, because if you try to explain the problem you get your submission rejected (instead of getting snooty emails from Mr X the way I used to).

So if anybody had been unable to date to find the matching spouse for a marriage in Kings Norton in Q2 1920, it should be all fixed now. ;)

hee hee I hope you got it right Janey ;) otherwise.....

lol runs >>>>>>

Oh, Rose, you know FreeBMD -- scrupulous to a fault, them! I'll shift any blame to them. Truly, I'm sure I only submitted one correction, and they figured the rest out for themselves.


PP, indeed, I submit corrections constantly. I have had a long email correspondence with someone who found one of his ancestors only from a correction I made -- I have no idea why I lit on it, but a household was all shown under the surname of the wife/mother, whose children did have her surname, but to whom the HOH wasn't married, so it was his surname that had been disappeared. However I ran across it, I searched and searched and fixed it up. And as a result, one of his descendants found him.

So the person whose ancestor it was PMed me, and we got to chatting, and he took a shine to my Hill/Monck tribe and set about trying to find inlaws for me in return for my assistance at Ancestry. And because of my anal insistence that people never change email subject lines, so my Gmail keeps the messages all together, I now have a huge thread of chat called "E___ A___ Read this AFTER you have read the first one", that's really about everything but Ms. EA, with much discussion of Jack the Riper and recipes for shepherd's pie. ;)