TRANSCRIPTION ERRORS, TAKE A LOOK

Did you ever wonder why transcriptions may be either fact or fantasy? Pretend you are sitting at a typewriter banging out transcriptions all day long. What would you do with this? And it's not the worst.

Check out this post from the Tip of the Day.

Sometimes it is a wonder anything gets indexed correctly.

Things are easier to read when you know what they are. When I “see” it the first name of the Civil War veteran listed on this coversheet to his pension file is easy to read. But if I were reading it cold. In this case, even the last name of Newman could be transcribed incorrectly.

When you are using a “typed-up” index always keep in mind what the typer-upper might have been seeing.

And if the typer-upper is a really “quicker typer upper,” the chance of an error is even greater.