Yvonne Gagnon born February 1899

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Marie Claire Proulx said: The 1911 transcription for the Canada Census is erroneous. Yvonne Gagnon daughter of Joseph & Helene born 1899 is not spelled "Laon". Yvonne was married to Emilien Proulx at the time of the obit below, in 1960.

See obit for Blanche Gagnon
https://haverootswilltravelobits.word...

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David Newton said: Pretty much doesn't matter what it says in that obituary. What matters is what it says in the 1911 Canada census. The only contribution that obituary might make is if there is a question over whether the transcription should be one thing or another. So is it the actual transcription you are complaining about, or what you think the transcription should say, not what's actually in the census?

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Marie Claire Proulx said: Other documents say "Evan". I suspect the name was spelled phonetically. The Census would have been written by a government worker, not a deponent.

Either way, the correct name prior to 1925 was Yvonne Gagnon; and her married name is Yvonne Proulx.

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Marie Claire Proulx said: Maybe the transcription should have been Yvon.

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Tom Huber said: First, welcome to the community support forum for FamilySearch. FamilySearch personnel read every discussion thread and may or may not respond as their time permits. We all share an active interest in using the resources of this site and as users, we have various levels of knowledge and experience and do our best to help each other with concerns, issues, and/or questions.

Obituaries often contain erroneous information. Census enumerators, if they could not find the family at home, often would obtain information from neighbors. So both census records and obituaries can (and often) contain errors.

Until institutional organizations, including governments, required consistent entry of names (order and spelling), census record, especially prior to the first world war, are inconsistent from one census to another.

The question is where there is an error in the index for the 1911 census. Does the index entry match the one in the census? If not, then at some point, we users will be able to correct the indexed entries. This means to correct entries is slowly being implemented and will eventually include a lot of entries.

Note that the census record itself is a historical document for which there is no institutional support to correct errors in the document itself. Only the index can be corrected.

Note, too, that if a person has an error on their official record (birth, marriage, etc.,) those can be corrected by the person, who will need to provide some form of proof for the correction to be made.