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Subject: online databases
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 01:29:27 EDT


In a message dated 10/15/99 10:11:13 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
writes:

<< Some months ago, I had reason to search some of the census records on the
ancestry.com site. The records that were retrieved were associated with the
wrong census districts or counties. Moreover, some of the numbers were
shifted so that it appeared a resident had a remarkable number of females in
the household. In point
of fact, the number was the count of Slaves. ... I sent a complaint to
ancestry. I don't recall that I received any sort of response. ... >>

I've also emailed Ancestry.com regarding some database errors. One of the
simplest database errors that I can recall quickly involves the 1850 Ohio
census index. It returns sets of duplicate entries. There are errors of
omission, too. The Ohio death index appears woefully incomplete (I have
actual death certificates "in hand" from Ohio that are not listed in their
indexes). To date, however, I have not received any reply from my message,
either. Has anyone received acknowledgement re: database quality messages to
Ancestry?

GenealogyLibrary.com does have a problem with their OCR not recognizing
characters properly in some instances ... I guess noone involved is really
checking this stuff.

Natalie Cottrill
Cottrill & Hefti, Professional Genealogists, Salt Lake City, Utah
<A HREF="http://www.progenealogists.com">http://www.progenealogists.com</A&g

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