From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Mon Jul 31 03:57:43 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 k6V9vhjb000548; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 03:57:43 -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 k6V9vIfR005102 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 03:57:18 -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 k6V7IXFI028216 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 03:18:33 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k6V7IXSD028215 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 03:18:33 -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 k6UNlZFI027364 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 19:47:35 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k6V2Q83f020709 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:26:08 -0600 X-Envelope-From: mscheffl@twcny.rr.com Sun Jul 30 20:26:08 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 k6V2Q8jb020700 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:26:08 -0600 Received: from ms-smtp-01.nyroc.rr.com (ms-smtp-01.nyroc.rr.com [24.24.2.55]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6V2PoKh029808 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:25:51 -0600 Received: from m1070n (cpe-69-201-76-92.twcny.res.rr.com [69.201.76.92]) by ms-smtp-01.nyroc.rr.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6V2PnGc014632 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 22:25:51 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <00f601c6b448$a33089b0$6501a8c0@m1070n> From: "MScheffler" To: References: <000a01c6b380$c42431d0$87b9e645@Colleen> Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Ancestry "New Look" Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 22:25:48 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com I have been searching a lot of census records the past few weeks and don't see a lot of difference between the old and new thus far. I do find having access to Ancestry census at home has been a tremendous asset to my research. One thing I continue to notice is that where/when I compare families from census year to census year there are quite a few indexing errors. Some of these are transcription errors and some seem to be the spelling of the census taker. I have tried where I am reasonably sure of the correct spellings, to send in corrections. If we all try to do this consistently, it WILL be a help to our fellow researchers. While it is great to find a family in one census, it certainly ismore helpful to find them in several to get a feel for accuracy and find children born in later decades. Ancestry has made it easy to send in corrections. Now it is up to us to help correct errors. Some of these are simply matters of interpretation, but we all gain if alternate spellings are offered. Margaret Scheffler