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From: "Paul K. Graham" <>
Subject: RE: [APG] Census Errors
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 16:52:05 -0400
In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.0.20060407153626.01dab1c0@ipostoffice.worldnet.att.net>


In DeKalb County, Georgia, "Brownings District (GMD 572)" was placed
entirely under "Cross Keys District (GMD 686)" in the LDS 1880
transcription, so that if someone was in Browning's District in 1880, they
show up as supposedly being in Cross Keys District. Browning's District is
ED 55 and Cross Keys and Shallowford Districts (together) are ED 46. You
will not find any mention of Browning's District in the LDS transcription
database. Also, for some strange reason, pages 1-11 of ED 46 are keyed under
"Shallowford and Cross Keys" and pages 12-33 are keyed under "Cross Keys."

Since Ancestry used the 1880 LDS data, Browning's District still is not
shown as a "township" in DeKalb County and the summary page for searches
shows Cross Keys District. However, with the images available, you can
clearly see what district you are on once you get to the image. Also, if you
click on the Cross Keys District link in DeKalb County, you see ED links for
both Cross Keys/Shallowford and for Browning's District, which is a good
thing.

I also have my suspicions that there are other mixups in the early Georgia
censuses (1820, 1830, 1840) but have not finished investigating them fully.
However, I have not found anything quite as bad as a whole county being
incorrectly keyed.

Paul K. Graham

-----Original Message-----
From: Jane Ailes [mailto:]
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 2:45 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [APG] Census Errors

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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