{"id":4273,"date":"2017-03-11T03:48:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T03:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4273"},"modified":"2017-03-11T03:53:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T03:53:48","slug":"born-in-the-state-or-country-of-tioga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4273","title":{"rendered":"Standardizing What We Should Be Transcribing: Born in the State or Country of Tioga"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Records with clear errors present challenges to transcribers.<\/p>\n

Actually they only present transcription challenges when the handwriting is difficult to read. Transcribers are supposed to transcribe records as they appear, not as they wish they would appear and not as they are “supposed” to appear. The directive is fairly clear. When the handwriting is easy to read, errors are not that hard to transcribe. When the handwriting is difficult to read, transcribing an error presents an addition layer of fog for the transcriber to navigate.<\/p>\n

The problem is compounded when the information being extracted is being put into a database with pre-populated fields from which the transcriber has to choose.<\/p>\n

And that’s the dilemma that likely met the\u00a0Ancestry.com<\/em> transcriber of the World War II Old Men’s Draft card for Henry William Trautvetter that appears in their “U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Henry was born in Hancock and Hancock is located in Tioga. That’s not a typographical error.<\/p>\n

\"trautvetter-henry-william-ww2\"<\/p>\n

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The printing on the draft card is clear for Trautvetter’s\u00a0place of birth:<\/p>\n