HOW HAVE YOU GOT ON WITH THE 1921 Census?

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I found one family, Herbert William Anderson and his wife Ismene (thankfully correctly transcribed) who were ‘holidaying’ at Hastings, stated to be lodgers. I then searched (for hours) for her father (my great-grandfather, Malcolm Muir Webster) and sister (Maggie), both of whom I knew lived at Buxted, Sussex, from 1916 when they arrived from NZ after my great-grandmother died in 1915. Please see the ‘weird and wonderful’ mistranscriptions of their names:

• Maggie Budge Webster 1869 — Buxted Uckfield Sussex had no birthplace identified, despite it being clearly included on the household schedule image page.• My great-grandfather Malcolm Muir Webster was transcribed as Malina Minor Webster.• The name for his grandson (Malcom Anderson Webster) is even more weirdly transcribed: Malelna Audenis. It was impossible to find him in the index, searching on