JaneyH wrote:... transcription errors on Ancestry - ... The first was a death record where it said age at death was 82, when in fact the handwritten register clearly said 32 (subsequently confirmed on FreeBMD) ...
So far as I know, it's quite unfair to blame errors in the early England & Wales Civil Registration Indexes on Ancestry, as they acquired the
indexes from FreeBMD. However, it's pretty clear that corrections in one site are not copied to the other, so the FreeBMD entry has surely been corrected. (It wouldn't really be possible to copy Ancestry corrections to FreeBMD anyway, as on Ancestry you can correct errors in the Indexes whereas on FreeBMD that's impossible.)
Adrian