From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Tue Aug 8 08:23:00 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k78EN0jb018585; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 08:23:00 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k78EMvHw007891 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 08:22:57 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k78BhhFI015999 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 07:43:43 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k78BhhG9015998 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 07:43:43 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k789A6FI015665 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 05:10:06 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k78Bn95t018593 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 05:49:09 -0600 X-Envelope-From: juanita2@cox.net Tue Aug 8 05:49:08 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k78Bn8jb018582 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 05:49:08 -0600 Received: from centrmmtao02.cox.net (centrmmtao02.cox.net [70.168.83.82]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k78Bn4fE000626 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 05:49:05 -0600 Received: from DH433L51 ([24.255.150.191]) by centrmmtao02.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20060808114901.KDMV22014.centrmmtao02.cox.net@DH433L51> for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 07:49:01 -0400 From: "juanita" To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 06:49:09 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <44D833E5.14719.E2416DB@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <65d66f240608072057x37bfa9bbh79e0180338cf85fb@mail.gmail.com> References: <44D79D24.5010703@comcast.net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21c) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: lost family in the 1880 census Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Many of us apparently have had similar occasions in locating our families on the census records. I'm glad we have the census indexes available though even if we have to turn into being detectives in locating a name. I couldn't find a family by the name of Willard on the 1880 census no matter how hard I looked. I knew where they lived but even reading the actual census handwriting myself I missed them. After the FHL posted the census online I decided to try searching by a son's surname since I knew his mother had remarried to a Willard and that he was still living with her. Sure enough I did find the family. It'd been indexed as Wiltuso. The original handwriting on the census was difficult to read and I could understand why it was misspelled in the index. I don't know if there are still hard bound copies of the census indexes any longer or not. I used them a lot before I had a computer or could get the census microfilm at our local library. This was 25-30 yrs. ago. I can't recall who the authors were now but I know there was more than one and they didn't all agree on name spellings. Perhaps these books are still in some libraries and might be a good place to check if someone is having difficulty finding a name. We really have to be creative or hopefully have an unusual given name to search with sometimes. juanita > I had a similar situation. In searching for my mother's family in the > 1930 census I had used every spelling for Garrett and soundex. Nothing > came up where it should be. Then I entered the name Lenore with > qualifying infomation and there they were. Garrett had been transcrib > ed as Gavveat. I believe it to be an error in transcribing as the > families in this area had been there for many, many years. There were > few unknowns in the area. The use of rare first names can aid in > finding that elusive family. > > Marilyne