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From: "Rebecca Anaya" <>
Subject: Re: [ARKANSAS] Ancestry - Using your state abbreviations
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 07:46:38 -0500
References: <004901c2c741$cecc6aa0$28fc693f@patkoger>


Oh, yeah! Then there are those entries where the state is actually
misspelled, or the wrong abbreviation is used - many times AK is incorrectly
used as the abbreviation for Arkansas. Wish there was a "soundex" kind of
thing for the states!


----- Original Message -----
From: "PAT KOGER" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 9:54 PM
Subject: [ARKANSAS] Ancestry - Using your state abbreviations


> Hi list,
> Doing a search on the 1920 census at Ancestry I have found some birth
> states for Arkansas indexed as AR and ARK. In the Kentucky census there
are
> 431,241 indexed as "Kentucky" born, and 576,158 indexed as "KY" born. You
> will have to use them all or none to get them all to show up.
> I spend all my time in that part of the census.Has anyone noticed this
> for other states?
>
> Pat TABER KOGER
>
> most wanted mom: Billie Josephine LEWIS TABER,
> born 1912 in Newport, Jackson Co., Arkansas--
> parents from Ky.
>
> ______________________________

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