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From: "Terri Gordon" <>
Subject: Re: [PABEAVER-L] Index- not always right...
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 09:56:42 -0700


Wonderful, thank you for your offer. Do you see any WHISLER's or JACKSON's
listed? Terri

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Date: Friday, August 06, 1999 8:06 PM
Subject: [PABEAVER-L] Index- not always right...


>I got the "Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, PA" by John
>Jordan thru Interlibrary loaning. I was disappointed not to find my SCOTT's
>listed in the index. But I started looking thru the pages and noticed other
>names connected to my SCOTT's. After a while I did find my SCOTT's. They
were
>listed under another name...WALLACE... which were in-laws. And because the
>WALLACE family is a more predominant family in the area, they were listed.
>Anyways, the moral to this story is not to leave any rock unturned. (And
>indexes aren't always correct.) I believe I had had someone look up the
name
>of SCOTT in this book before and of course it wasn't listed in the index.
(at
>least not JOHN SCOTT) But I went ahead and ordered the book, just cuz I
>wanted to look for other names. Boy am I glad I did.
> Well, while I have the book, I might as well do look-ups... oh, and I
>won't just use the index...
>Lynn
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