How do I get census details corrected

[Sue H]

Hi getting better at rummaging around with censuses now but have found details of my great auntie with my great grandma and pa for 1911 with the names incorrect.

They are correct when you go into the census its self however the listing on Ancestry is wrong.......noticed while you were helping me, you came across some that were wrong, and comments were put that you had corrected them

[dickiesam]

Hi Sue,
If the information on the actual census summary page is different to the information in the transcription, all you do is report a transcription error to Ancestry. I don't have Ancestry but usually the page you view the transcription on will have a button to click and that will take you to a page where you can report the error.

If a comment was made on this forum that a correction had been submitted, it almost certainly has been. But I believe it can take up to 3 months for Ancestry to make the correction. My Findmypast people do a correction usually within 24 hours!

BTW, there's nothing stopping you submitting another correction notice.

For a transcription to be changed there has to be an error between what is written on the summary by the enumerator, or in the case of the 1911 by the head of household, and what the transcriber entered into the database.

They cannot change a mistake that is on the actual census form. In the 1901 one of my rellies has had his surname mispelt by the enumerator. Instead of Thomas Sa******, he had written Thomas Sta******. And that's the way it has to stay!

DS