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I think we’ve all been there...we find a transcribed Birth/Baptism, Marriage, Death/Burial or Census entry, and it either 1) looks completely wrong, 2) looks too good to be true, 3) has no supporting citation or source information. So, how do we know 1) where it came from? 2) whether it’s actually correct, or even complete? 3) what the transcriptional errors might be? The answer, of course, is to find the original document. But that isn’t always possible. Particular bug-bears are 1) the dreaded “Selected Births and Baptisms, Scotland” 2) census transcriptions, 3) indexes, 4) online Family Trees. Join Dr. Bruce Durie for a Cautionary Tales tour of some of the worst offenders and howlers, and gives hints and suggestions as to how to get around them.
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loved listening to Bruce! Thank you\n\nLovely to hear Dr. Bruce Durie and his Scots accent teaching with lots of attitude!! I always learn something new to remember when researching. Thanks for having such personable presenters. Cheers! \n\nMost helpful. Thank you.\n\nMy first time hearing Bruce: wow!!!\n\nOne of my favourite presenters (besides Geoff)!\n\nPlease more Dr. Durie! \n\nReally enjoyed Bruce's webinar, bringing up errors in family trees that people repeatedly copy (a thorn in my side) and especially enjoyed his accent! Thanks to all. : )\n\nReally want to check out the other webinars now. \n\nSo enjoyable to listen to!\n\nthe information was awesome.\n\nThe webinar gave me many new ideas/warnings to consider when looking at transcriptions of any document. Most helpful!\n\nThe webinar was a very good reminder to look beyond the indexes and transcriptions when doing research.\n\nThe words "Assume Nothing" is even more meaningful to me now! Valuable information and insight into doing all we can to make sure we have correct information. \n\nThis was a fantastic webinar! I have been frustrated with the number of errors on many of the big Genealogy Websites. They are so misleading especially to those who are new to genealogy. Many thanks for your honest description of this situation and the ways to avoid the errors!\n\nThis was my first time attending a Bruce Durie webinar, and I really enjoyed his presentation.\n\nToo bad the folks who make the most errors probably weren't watching.\n\nTotally wonderful and informative. \n\nVery basic, good reminders!\n\nVery enlighten. Great speaker.\n\nVery Good\n\nVery good information about misspellings, etc. I volunteer at the Indexing for FamilyShearch.org and I find what he says really pertinent, especially when I do the Editing portion of the volunteer work. \n\nVery good webinar. I will be starting my Scottish genealogy soon and I appreciate this webinar.\n\nVery good!\n\nvery informative\n\nVery informative and enjoyable.\n\nvery interesting\n\nVery interesting and I will investigate buying a webinar subscription\n\nVery interesting!\n\nVery useful! A good pace, excellent examples.\n\nwhat an excellant webinar I could listen to him all day. Thansk\n\nWish it had been longer with more examples\n\nWonderful, as always! Thank you for all the tips and suggestions on our genealogy journey. I especially appreciated the tips to viewers, such as 'not believing everything you read in researching'. We received a certified copy of my mother-in-law's birth certificate which had a stranger listed as her mother. It took a lot of red tape to have the error corrected. Thank you Geoff for your enjoyable webinars. As for today, It is always a pleasure to hear Bruce's beautiful Scottish accent!\n\nYes! Great reminder to be distrustful and read everything for yourself. Wonderful presenter, very human and humane. Thank you!
Good advice!\n\nGood examples, and fun mistakes. I did like the references to the widespread impact.\n\nGood info about examining a record closely for accuracy.\n\nGood info for beginners and actually for the rest of us. It is frightening to finally adopt new info unless you are very sure it is correct. \n\nGood info!\n\nGood information and presentation.\n\nGood suggestions, examples, and reasons were given. \n\ngood webinar. thanks\n\nGreat\n\nGreat examples of errors! And I agree with Durie about companies needing to take responsibility for their incorrect records.\n\nGreat info, very clear. Enjoyable presenter and host. \n\nGreat info. Thanks.\n\nGreat information & speaker.\n\nGreat presenter!\n\nGreat webinar, have found many mistakes and miss transcriptions. Like Bruce I contacted the people to be helpful, only to be told to mind my own business.\n\nGreat webinar. I guess I need to confirm/ disprove potential Scottish ancestors \n\nGreat webinar. I wish all genealogists and those who dabble in genealogy could watch this webinar\n\nHaven’t done my research on my Scottish ancestors so I definitely will watch his other webinars\n\nHelpful to learn about the many mistakes that can trip up the search for information!\n\nhelpful, informative, enjoyable. What else could you ask for.\n\nHe's so very knowledgeable and fun to listen to... delivers just enough usable information. Good info on Legacy s/w as well. \n\nI know these things, and I remind newbies in our Society’s library BUT, it’s always good to have this repeated by the experts! I’ve seen the gammet of genealogical searchers.... Thank you.\n\nI agree with Mr. Guthrie on so many of his "bug bears", top of my list being on-line family trees. The errors are rampant, and I especially go off when I see mistakes related to my own family members. And then the users who simply and blindly gather up a tree from someone else and plop it down into their own without checking, verifying, and seemingly not caring whether it is correct or belongs there.\n\nI always learn so much from Bruce Durie. Love his webinars\n\nI always make time to hear Bruce.\n\nI am new to this type of research and I'm so glad to hear that my caution is warranted. I will definitely try to attend again and will consider a membership to Legacy. Very excited to be taking the plunge in genealogy. :)\n\nI could listen to Dr. Bruce Durie, the master skeptic, speak on this topic all day long! Thank you! \n\nI have been "preaching" this to friends I have shown how to do their family genealogy. Sad that it has been allowed to have so much mis-information online. \nI agree with Brian, that it is the website's responsibility. Great job!\n\nI learned something\n\nI look forward to delving in more to my Scottish roots and seeing what I can find out that is more concrete in the 1600-1700’s. \n\nI loved that he has a great sense of humor about some of the things that he has found.\n\nI really enjoy Bruce's webinars. He has a wealth of knowledge and presents it in a very accessible way. \n\nImportant points about checking for accuracy. \n\ninteresting topic and I enjoyed it. . I wish it was a bit longer with more examples!\n\nInteresting, loved hearing Bruce, but a bit basic.\n\nIt was great fun, and I was glad to also hear Geoff again. \n\nIt was interesting and very informative.\n\nJust listening to his voice is a delight! Then all his webinars are so informative\n\nListening to Bruce is always fun. \n\nLots of good examples!\n\nLove Bruce's accent :-) I highly recommend taking a course with him in SLC!!! \n\nlove his wit and his high standards\n\nLove the Scottish accent.
A charming and engaging speaker.\n\nA very knowledgeable speaker.\n\nAbsolutely fabulous! I love his humor and his no nonsense attitude.\n\nActual examples (and the stories that go with them) are not only enjoyed, but very helpful as well!! A most pleasant webinar afternoon. Thank you, Dr. Durie!\n\nAll true, all good! And fun....\n\nAlways a pleasure to hear Bruce talk.\n\nAlways enjoyable to listen to Bruce Durie. The depth and breadth of his knowledge always offers new information for a genealogist!\n\nAlways interesting with Dr. Bruce Durie! \n\nAlways love to hear Dr Durie, he is informative and fun\n\nAmazing presentation and presenter!\n\nAmazing to find out that a LOT of sources are incorrect! \n\nAs always Bruce Durie is an ever flowing fountain of knowledge!\n\nAs always, Dr. Druie makes us think\n\nAs usual, the webinar was very interesting, very informative and Bruce Durie has a charming way of presenting it all. Thank you for another great webinar!\n\nAWESOME!\n\nAwesome! I have lots of "iffy" data to review, I know. Pandemic entertainment!\n\nBrilliant..as always!\n\nBruce is a very easy to understand speaker - I mean the way he presents his material\n\nBruce is absolutely wonderful, with a great sense of humor.\n\nBruce is always entertaining and his down home style makes all his topics a pleasure to listen to and absorb!\n\nBruce is always good. This was back to the basics. Excellent.\n\nBruce was fabulously informative, as always!\n\nCrystal clear and absolutely excellent\n\nDr Drurie is always good Reiterated to me how you must really look at transcripts but sadly didn't learn too much Had some good laughs I love listening to him but really have no relationship with Scottish genealogy and very minimal with UK Figure I might learn something to help someone else some day\n\nDr. Bruce Durie is an excellent speaker. I learned many ways to look at transcriptions that don't look right. There was a lot of information and quite a few laughs. Thank you.\n\nDr. Durie did have time for a long story!\n\nDr. Durie has so much good advice. His webinars are always worth watching.\n\nDr. Durie is a great source of information, quite knowledgeable, and has a great personality! Thank you!\n\nDr. Durie is always informative and amusing - a great combination!\n\nDr. Durie was very knowledgeable.\n\nDr. Durie's webinars are always great - very informative and lots of fun. Thanks for the webinar & for everything you're doing for us during the pandemic.\nenjoyed Dr. Bruce Durie. Will listen again as I was late in signing in.\n\nEnjoyed listening to the presentation.\n\nEnjoyed the humor and the prodding at being a "skeptic".\n\nExcellent as always\n\nExcellent discussion about a major problem. Interesting to know Legacy software has a feature to help--didn't know that!\n\nexcellent examples that I will be on the lookout for in my own research\n\nExcellent information\n\nExcellent information. Thanks!\n\nExcellent pointers to keep in mind while researching. Bruce, Thank you!\n\nExcellent presentation! Dr. Durie makes me wish I had Scottish ancestors!\n\nExcellent presentation. Appreciated the slides being included in the syllabus. \n\nExcellent presentation. Just wish Scotland's records were more accessible online.\n\nExcellent tips for any researcher. Thank you for the thoughtful presentation, full of usable tips.\n\nExcellent\n\nExcellent!\n\nExcellent! \n\nExcellent!! I learned a lot!\n\nExcellent....need now to return to my list of problems again :( \n\nfabulous--I am reentering all of my research (from 1977 onwards) into a new database, and this reinforces my determination to check for and document sources.\n\nFantastic information as always\n\nFun & informative! I think everyone who has done genealogy research has at least one indexing horror story. \n\nGlad there was time for so many questions.