William TRIGG of Westbury-on-Severn (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Sunday, December 03, 2017, 20:02 (2335 days ago) @ JaneyH

Well spotted Janey !

Yes, it's always worth checking more than one source of reference, whatever subject you're researching, be it work or pleasure. These days my own go-to back-up site for FH is the LDS aka FamilySearch site, yet to be honest that's largely 'cos it's free and user-friendly, and because I'm not currently subscribing to any of the big sites. However it usually doesn't allow me to see the actual image so it's something of a gamble believing their transcriptions. I say this because when I first started-out on this FH hobby about 10 years ago, all the text books I read warned to be very wary of the LDS site due to it's inaccurate transcriptions. I was therefore a little surprised to find that some of the big subscription sites quote LDS-sourced records. Furthermore, when I started using Ancestry (as it was the cheapest subscription site, and free at the library), I soon found their transcriptions could sometimes be appallingly-bad too. I gather British subscription site's can be better in this respect, altho' when I asked on this forum some years ago the opinions were mixed. I was less-than-impressed that when I help Ancestry by submitting corrections, their site still seemed to give priority to the incorrect originals... I hope to be wrong, but all the signs I've seen from Ancestry over the last year or two is that they want to increase profits by pushing the DNA side of their business, and not worry too much about serious researchers...

I've just searched for William Trigg on Familysearch, and was pleasantly surprised to find what you did, that they have transcribed him correctly - I wasn't 100% sure from your post if this was perhaps one of their errors that I've read so much about yet have rarely actually seen.

Have you raised a Correction Form to get this site's transcription of this PR checked ?
http://www.forest-of-dean.net/joomla/index.php/help-faq/database-correction-request-form

Record_ID: 80307
Entry_Number: 492
Year: 1766
Month: Apr
Day: 6
Parents_Surname: TRIGG
Child_Forenames: William
Fathers_Forenames: Richard
Mothers_Forenames: Elizabeth
Mothers_Surname:
Residence:
Occupation:
Officiating_Minister: John Ridley Vicar
Event: Baptism
Memoranda: Son of
Notes:
Register_Reference: P 354 IN 1/3
Page_Number: 15
Parish_Chapel: Westbury on Severn
Soundex: T620

That said, it seems highly unlikely to me that such an error (Ridon->Trigg) was made on this transcription, altho' sometimes errors can occur of course, we're all human. It's almost always beneficial to use local reference cds or sites such as this FoD one, as the transcribers are unpaid volunteers who know their area and local names, places, etc; in stark contrast to most of the American convicts who I gather were used for many of the Ancestry transcriptions, and were probably working on piece-rate to boot !

I wonder if the above PR was somehow mixed-up with one or both of those below, perhaps during the process of uploading to the website, and surnames became interchanged or somesuch ?? I can find several TRIGG and RIDER PRs at W-o-S a few years either side of 1766, but these are the only RIDER/RIDONs for 1766.

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Record_ID: 1004889
Entry_Number:
Year: 1766
Month: Oct
Day: 3
Surname: RIDER
Forenames: Solomon
Residence:
Age_at_death:
Officiating_Minister: Rev. Charles Bishop
Event: Burial
Cause_of_death:
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P276 IN 1/1
Page_No: 17
Parish_Chapel: Rudford
Soundex: R360

Record_ID: 58457
Entry_Number: 385
Year: 1766
Month: Jul
Day: 1
Surname: RIDER
Forenames: Ann
Residence:
Age_at_death:
Officiating_Minister: John Ridley Vicar
Event: Burial
Cause_of_death:
Memoranda: Wife of Benjamin
Notes:
Register_Reference: P 354 IN 1/3
Page_No: 110
Parish_Chapel: Westbury on Severn
Soundex: R360