{"id":8321,"date":"2021-03-09T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/?p=8321"},"modified":"2021-03-09T22:54:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T20:54:42","slug":"a-word-of-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/a-word-of-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"A word of warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Errors in the transcribed church records<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the autumn of 2017, the Norwegian National archives started a collaboration with Ancestry, MyHeritage, and FamilySearch (AMF) to transcribe parts of the Norwegian church records. The sections in the church records that have been the focus are<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Born and baptized<\/li>\n<li>Married<\/li>\n<li>Deceased and buried<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The church records from 1801 to 1815 are completed.\u00a0 A large number of the records from the years after 1815 have also been done.\u00a0This is thanks to the effort of a large number of volunteers. They should be commended for giving their time and energy to this work. There is, however, an elephant in the room that can not be ignored.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8327\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8327\" style=\"width: 393px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8327\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/a-word-of-warning\/screen-shot-03-09-21-at-01-43-pm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-03-09-21-at-01.43-PM.jpg?fit=393%2C288&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"393,288\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screen Shot 03-09-21 at 01.43 PM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;This is section appear next to data transcribed by the AMF collaboration&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-03-09-21-at-01.43-PM.jpg?fit=393%2C288&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-8327 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-03-09-21-at-01.43-PM.jpg?resize=393%2C288&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"393\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-03-09-21-at-01.43-PM.jpg?w=393&amp;ssl=1 393w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-03-09-21-at-01.43-PM.jpg?resize=300%2C220&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8327\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This field tells us who transcribed the data we are looking at.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While errors may and do occur in any product, it has turned out that the transcriptions produced by the AMF collaboration contain a disproportionally higher number of errors than records transcribed outside the AMF.<\/p>\n<p>There are many different errors occurring. I have used church records where most of the farm names were either partly or completely misspelled. I have seen examples of common Norwegian first names not being recognized and\/or given the wrong gender. Yesterday I used a church record from Hedmark county with several incidents where the first fadder \u2192 witness\/sponsor to baptisms was identified as the father of the child.<\/p>\n<p>The errors I have found make me think that it has been done by a person with little or no local knowledge of the parish where the records appear, Norwegian naming conventions, and the layout of Norwegian church records.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to emphasize that I <strong>do not<\/strong> write this to ridicule the persons that have done these transcriptions. I write it because as things stand right now, these records may cause major confusion to anyone trying to use them. I also want those of you thinking of taking on transcription work to consider if you really have the necessary knowledge to do so. Having been dealing with Norwegian records for almost 30 years I still don&#8217;t feel confident enough to take on the transcription of a complete church record for publication. The errors also reiterate the genealogy point of always checking the original source.<\/p>\n<p>As many of you will know, the Digital archives have an &#8220;error report feature&#8221; present on every page with transcribed data. I and many others have used this feature to report the many errors we find. The errors from the AMF collaboration caused so many reports that the Digital Archives has been forced to close the possibility of reporting on AMF&#8217;s transcripts of the church registers&#8217; lists of baptized, married, and buried between approx. 1815-1938. They no longer have the capacity to do the corrections.<\/p>\n<p>The Digital Archives have started a collaboration project with the users where the goal is to proofread these files from the church books. It is far better to proofread and correct entire church books than to make random corrections. This process will necessarily take some time and while we wait for this work to be completed we need to cautious when using the records.<\/p>\n<p>I will revisit this case as updates on the progress are published by the Digital Archives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Errors in the transcribed church records<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-norwegian-sources","post_format-post-format-image"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.0 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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