Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Transcribing Errors on Drouin Collection at Ancestry.ca

Cooperation between the French-language University of Montreal and Ancestry.ca was called a “significant accomplishment” by U of M senior researcher Bertrand Desjardins. However, Ancestry.ca outsourced the indexing of the Drouin collection to China and the results are as you might expect. The Chinese workers, it seems, have made numerous errors in transcribing the baptism, marriage and burial records.
See:
http://www.foreveryoungnews.com/article/11044

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