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From: Jane Ailes <>
Subject: RE: [APG] Census Errors
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 15:44:56 -0400
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A huge problem I've run into with Ancestry's census records is that the
entire 1840 Hardy Co., Virginia enumeration has been indexed as Harrison
Co., Virginia. Even when you pull up the image of the pages, unless you
are familiar with Hardy Co. and recognize the name of the enumerator for
the page, there is now way of knowing that you are actually looking at a
Hardy Co. page.

Jane Ailes

At 03:21 PM 07-04-06, Kevin L. Sholder wrote:
>Connie / All,
>
>I find this most interesting because over the last few weeks I have been
>getting my census information together for the 1920 census and have found
>that Heritage Quest has "duplicate" page references that overlap the 7th
>Ward of Williamsport and Old Lycoming Township both in Lycoming County,
>Pennsylvania. I've been unable to make time to get to the library to
>validate what Ancestry shows. But I can tell you that starting with:
>
>1920 Census, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania; Series T625, Roll 1599, Pages 97
>through 107 are duplicated in their reference as both 7th Ward Williamsport
>and Old Lycoming Township, very strange. Has anyone else seen something
>like this in other areas?
>
>Kevin Sholder
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Connie Bradbury [mailto:]
>Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 03:01 PM
>To:
>Subject: [APG] Census Errors
>
>Although I've encountered the same type of problem before, this one was a
>little more perplexing and time-consuming to overcome so I am posting it
>here as a warning but also to find out if there was another way I could have
>located my ancestor in a more efficient manner.
>
>I searched the index at Ancestry.com for Oliver A. Lattin in 1910 in Indiana
>or Ohio. The entry in the index gave:
>
>"Oliver A. Latten - Madison Twp., Jay, IN - b. abt 1850 Indiana - White -
>Male" I chose to view the image.
>
>The information bar at the top showed I would be viewing 1910 US Federal
>Census>Indiana>Jay>Madison Twp>District 67.
>
>The schedule, which was page 84a which was image 2, was Indiana, Jay Co.,
>Madison Twp. but Oliver was not to be found. Since this was p. 84a I also
>searched 84b. He was not found. Neither was he on the first image, which
>was Sheet No. 8b.
>
>Then I noticed that Image 1 was District 67 and Image 2 was District 68!
>
>I went back to the index and chose to "View Record" for Oliver. The Image
>Source gives this: Year: 1910; Census Place: Madison Twp, Jay, Indiana;
>Series: T624; Roll: 358; Page: 81b not 84; Enumeration District: 67 not 68;
>Part 2; Line: 20.
>
>Then, I clicked on Madison Twp so I could see what precincts and districts
>were listed:
>
>District 66 - Knox Township
>District 67 - Madison Township (part) including Salamonia
> Town, Salamonia precinct;
>District 68 - Madison Township (part of) excluding
>Salamonia town. Salem Precinct
>
>Since the "View Record" said ED 67 that is where I went. That took me back
>to the Image 1 mentioned above with a sheet no. 8b, and Image 2 is 84a,
>District 68.
>
>l then selected District 68 which consisted of one sheet, Noble Township,
>sheet 2b.
>
>Knox Township was the only place left to search. Image 1 is Jay Co.,
>Madison Twp., Salamonia Precinct, ED 67 Sheet 3b. Image 2 is paage 79a.
>I'M GETTING CLOSER! I skipped to page 81b. Now keep in mind that the a and
>b pages' line numbers are numbered consecutively. If he is supposed to be
>on line 20 he will not be found on page 81b!
>
>However, that is exactly where I find him, but Line 59 not line 20.
>
>Also, there is nothing pertaining to Knox Precinct at this link.
>
>I was conducting another search last week and never did find the individual!
>
>I hope everyone in the paths of the storms stay safe and dry. When I watch
>the weather reports I start thinking that maybe dealing with 40 below for a
>few days or week a year isn't all that bad because we get very little wind
>and rarely a destructive storm. We just FREEZE!
>
>Connie
>
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