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From: "Richard A. Pence" <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Re: APG-D Digest V04 #237
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:59:42 -0400
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Helen:

Your message brings to mind a less obvious indexing problem. In the 1860
census of Indiana (and probably others) Ia. was often used by enumerators as
an abbreviation for Indiana. Some - not all - indexers have understandably
have decided all of these Hoosiers were born in IOWA!

(And, yep, I am sick to death of "out sourcing"!!)

Richard

----- Original Message -----
From: "Helen S. Ullmann" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 2:08 PM
Subject: [APG] Re: APG-D Digest V04 #237


> Has anyone noticed all the children born in "India" in the 1850 census
> index for Indiana on Ancestry.com?
> I wonder where the indexing was done :) :) :)
>
> It looks like when "Indiana" was spelled out they got it right.
>
> Helen Ullmann
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