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From: Connie Sheets <>
Subject: Re: [TGF] NARA Microfilm Numbers
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:49:56 -0700 (PDT)


September McCarthy wrote:

> It appears that the A1156 designation used by Ancestry.com is being
> used to indicate that this NARA microfilm T1156 has been digitized
> by NARA's "Digitization Partners" Ancestry.com and Footnote.com and
> that part of this agreement includes free access to the records in all
> NARA Research rooms...it would be interesting to hear what others
> think of how to cite these records going forward.

September,

Ancestry correctly states in their Source Information description that the Iowa nonpopulation Schedules are in T1156, rolls 54-62; however, in the index itself (at least for my ancestor), it states "Roll A1156-57."  See, for example:

http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?ti=0&indiv=try&db=usmortality&h=2226004

A list of NARA microfilm of the nonpopulation schedules, by state, can be found at the bottom of this National Archives page:

http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/census/nonpopulation/#where

I think this is a typical Ancestry indexing error, so I have chosen to cite the image as "from National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T1156, roll 57; this record is incorrectly indexed by Ancestry as deriving from NARA microfilm series A1156."

Other interpretations (or thoughts on citation) are most welcome!

Connie
















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