ORFORUM-L Archives

Archiver > ORFORUM > 2004-04 > 1082595802


From: Nedra Dickman Brill <>
Subject: Re: [GFO] Re: Census searches with initials
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 18:03:22 -0700
References: <20040421.175323.-638455.7.sengercm@juno.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040421.175323.-638455.7.sengercm@juno.com>


You can also often find a family in a census by searching the index for
their neighbors from 10 years before or after. Even if the family you seek
had an unrecognizable name that may have been mis-indexed, pick the
neighbor with a more easily readable name. This is much faster than reading
the entire township or city.

Nedra

At 05:53 PM 4/21/2004, Clyde M Senger wrote:
>I am sorry to have caused so much confusion. My messages were meant more
>as an "alert" to others about the problems with census searches at
>Heritage and Ancestry rather than as a plea for help.
>I have tried so many different possibilities that I think I have found
>what there is to be found in the indexes. As someone said, sometimes the
>writing is so bad at least on the images that are available that they
>really cannot be read and what cannot be read cannot be indexed.
>HOWEVER, I think I remember a case where I could not find something in
>the index but ran into it in a scan of the census itself. It suggested
>either an individual was missed or the whole page was missed. Also, you
>may recognize a name that the one doing the index did not.
>Thus, if it is important enough and you think you know where they are, a
>census search may pay off.
>Clyde Senger


Nedra Dickman Brill, Certified Genealogist
Registrar, Oregon State Society DAR
Historian, Henckel Family National Association
Coordinator Pendleton County, WV,

CG is a service mark of the Board for Certification of Genealogists,
used under license after periodic evaluations by the Board.
http://www.bcgcertification.org/




This thread: