From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Mon Jul 31 07:44:55 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 k6VDitjb026749; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 07:44:55 -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 k6VDirPl032084 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 07:44:53 -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 k6VB5lFI029195 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 07:05:47 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k6VB5ljD029194 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 07:05:47 -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 k6V8DDFI028800 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 04:13:13 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k6VAplgG028185 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 04:51:47 -0600 X-Envelope-From: justrootin@gmail.com Mon Jul 31 04:51:47 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 k6VApljb028176 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 04:51:47 -0600 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.235]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6VApgAh002431 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 04:51:43 -0600 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i31so397315wra for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 03:51:42 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:to:references:subject:date:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-priority:x-msmail-priority:x-mailer:x-mimeole:from; b=ll8KitPnGpDUTBCsHw1p/ffoshf5tdHYYQaPdhtmIFPY9DtzE2xuoYbqegNXhS40q9RN6iwchX6byUSDeeWfs77LAnUXfWhncDPjwl7JQvg9tyBCUUTnB/h35gSmEWCG2iCp9WKrUwU+K/M5CyHwVFfWYvRrWtLfDrD24UHrCVM= Received: by 10.54.114.3 with SMTP id m3mr2246384wrc; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 03:51:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from SUZY ( [66.61.159.41]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 7sm3976757wrh.2006.07.31.03.51.39; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 03:51:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <003201c6b48f$4bf8aff0$299f3d42@SUZY> To: "MScheffler" , References: <000a01c6b380$c42431d0$87b9e645@Colleen> <00f601c6b448$a33089b0$6501a8c0@m1070n> Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Ancestry "New Look" Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:51:25 -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 From: Suzy McGrew Krol 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 Hi Margaret, I didn't realize you could advise them of corrections on census reports...how would you go about doing that? Suzy P.S. Your research tips have been SO very helpful! ~~~May your journey be as exciting as your destination... ----- Original Message ----- From: "MScheffler" To: Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 10:25 PM Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Ancestry "New Look" > 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 >