Incorrect transcription of surname from English Census of 1921 to Ancestry.com

[deeahgwitch]

Just wondering where can this be corrected?
DH’s great great grandfather’s surname has been transcribed incorrectly from the 1921 Census to records sent out by Ancestry to him - Ancestry send out hints to their subscribers which help with genealogy investigations. The letter u has been substituted by the letter a, giving his great great grandfather a different surname.
On the census it is correct.

Same has happened with an ancestor of mine on the 1841 census, the final letter has been transcribed as an S when it’s actually an O.

On the record page there should be a button for ‘add or update information’. You can provide the correction, and there’s a drop down box where you can select ‘transcription error’ as the reason. (I think you can sometimes submit the change under ‘user correction’ too - I’m sure I remember doing this recently). I’m not sure what happens after this point, but hopefully it should change for you at least!

There's load of transcription errors on Ancestry. As @flooft says you can add your own correction to the record to help other members.

Thank you

Not on Ancestry, but I’ve corrected transcription errors in censuses in my family. In one case, I spent ages trying to find where my great x 3 grandfathers family went in the 1850s. They weren’t in the census, nor the workhouse records nor even the lunatic asylum records. I decided to look instead for his unmarried sister in law, who lived with the family for decades. I found her, and a cursive script I had been transcribed as a P in my family surname in the census records.

I also found a relative born around 1835, described 4 decades later as aged 4, a silk winder in the census. I wrote that even in those days, it was unlikely a 4 year old was working; and the age didn’t match earlier censuses.

I was using Family Search and Find My Past at the time. IIRC, I reported these errors to Find My Past, and eventually people wrote back that these errors had been corrected.