Sharing transcriptions between Family Search & Ancestry?
I know Family Search and Ancestry has agreed on some type of collaboration with the 1950 census. But I'm wondering if the transcriptions we are doing here will be shared with Ancestry? I found some 1950 census pages with my family on it at the other site with transcriptions that I know I personally corrected here on Family Search. Are the changes that we do here going to be utilized on the other site as well?
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My understanding is that the index Ancestry has now is the uncorrected version. They were confident enough in the AI transcription software to release it before FamilySearch volunteers had finished reviewing. As the census gets reviewed, Ancestry will fix their Index. For now it seems FamilySearch is waiting for each state to be reviewed before releasing the index of that state.
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You can go to the National Archives site and put your suggested changes in there. I ended up going to this original source since I couldn't find my mother's or father's names, and was able to use their search to find them. Both were clearly written, but badly transcribed by the computer program. I was able to input the correct names for everyone in both households. The only thing the site requires is an email verification code (for every name search).
Note: It has been less than a week, and when I enter a search for my father (state/county/full name), it brings up the correct page of the census, but shows a blank in the "Matched Name(s)" field. So it may take a while for those names changes to be entered into their system.
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