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From: Joy Fisher <>
Subject: Re: [NDGENWEB-L] Census Changes
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 15:19:09 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20040713103938.00b8b2f8@mail.comcast.net>


Holly:

All of the ND census images are available in the
Archives, thanks to Joe Z. and John Schunk.

--- Holly Timm <> wrote:
> At 07:05 AM 7/13/2004 -0700, Mike Peterson wrote:
> >Thank you Holly !
> >It appears that one was a problem for the
> transcriber also as it had a
> >couple ?? marks. The other I think perhaps it was
> the census taker. My plans
> >now are to set up a supplemental page.
> >Thanks again.
>
> anytime Mike,
>
> Many researchers don't understand that transcripts
> need to be true to the
> original, not to what may actually be correct. I
> deal with this frequently
> as the online part of the project to transcribe the
> 1930 Cuyahoga Ohio
> census. When I get a "correction" from someone I
> check it with the census
> image at Ancestry and correct our files only if I
> agree with it. I don't
> have a supplemental page set up yet but am saving up
> the 'corrections' that
> were census taker error not transcriber error.
>
> http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohcuyah2/census/
>
> If you don't have access to census images, I'd be
> happy to take a look for you.
>
> Holly
>
>
>


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