From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Mon Jul 31 07:45:09 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 k6VDj9jb026972; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 07:45:09 -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 k6VDj2wf032367 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 07:45:02 -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 k6VB6HFI029216 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 07:06:17 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k6VB6Hi4029215 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 07:06:17 -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 k6VAGRFI029048 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:16:27 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k6VCt23j028291 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:55:02 -0600 X-Envelope-From: marilyneb@gmail.com Mon Jul 31 06:55:02 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 k6VCt2jb028280 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:55:02 -0600 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6VCsw9R013415 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:54:59 -0600 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so764765uge for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 05:54:59 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=ucfJev6Bu9Jtf1iTiALLFaBNEh95lBLcZuK1vc6AGzNltUQBq23eLWv14E6QBe4Z8VlfQ/VuS56XMQzRYB6X2O2hcSaKqOmR6oGHvf8lqyl2cG1sjpvQ4mNNptTBMxezd5qcCarslxPXobtrZeYTI8+P+H0qL3HhgytAx2xLG/s= Received: by 10.66.249.11 with SMTP id w11mr2444459ugh; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 05:54:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.236.13 with HTTP; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 05:54:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <65d66f240607310554h40b2214dnd30980b5572f3d07@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 07:54:59 -0500 From: "marilyn e brown" To: MScheffler Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Ancestry "New Look" Cc: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com In-Reply-To: <00f601c6b448$a33089b0$6501a8c0@m1070n> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed References: <000a01c6b380$c42431d0$87b9e645@Colleen> <00f601c6b448$a33089b0$6501a8c0@m1070n> 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 agree, please send in the corrections. Recently, as I tried to put the census records in order for my mother's family; I realized I did not have the 1930 census. I tried every spelling for the surname and still could not find them. But, I picked a sister whose given name was not real common and entered it, along with qualifying information. Hit search and there it was in the first 10 possible matches. I feel this was a transcription error as this was an area where family had lived for over 100 years. Could even have been a neighbor or relative actually doing the census. The other point to take into consideration is handwriting was not the same as today. Marilyne On 7/30/06, MScheffler wrote: > > 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 > > >