well having done a bit of genealogy the last couple years yes a lot of people have had names either incorrectly written down on a passenger manifest or incorrec

well having done a bit of genealogy the last couple years yes a lot of people have had names either incorrectly written down on a passenger manifest or incorrectly indexed by someone reading it, often decades later from microfilmed documents of varying quality. I haven't read the article yet but the field is a bit less black and white than stated in the headline here. The practice will teach you to get good at making wildcard searches or just looking at a document holistically for context. Edit: there's an aside here about how a lot of amateur family historians are quite lazy and trust what an index / record extract will say without actually reading the source record itself. The widespread availability of record access these days has made it a bit harder to determine who has actually done correct research and who is just going with what a "hint" will reveal (garbage in-garbage out).