You might try SAR records to find Hessian ancestors. While SAR does not have anyone up and running with John's material questions from interested parties may well speed up the process. Howard Horne, Ph.D. President General NSSAR 1999-2000. -------------- Original message -------------- > Hi Earl, > I was just thinking that if my Hessian's name could have been changed so > much, maybe yours could have been too. I'd try actually viewing the census > in the areas you think he was in. I do know that Ancestry.com's and > Genealogy.com's indexes have major errors in the transcriptions of the > indexes. One example is in my site at > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/hstry/btyhist.htm > This is an extract from my site.... > > This is from Ray Beaty PHD.. the Beatty project founder... > > A related research problem has emerged in the last few years. As we now have > indexes for just about every available U.S. Census year we are running into > the problem created by indexing errors. > > Many of the original census data pages are difficult to read because of the > census recorder's difficult handwriting or the quality of the microfilm. I > have been working with the Ancestry.com and the Genealogy.com indexes and > have found several errors in the past couple of weeks. For example, Donna > Van Zandt and I were looking for the 1870 data on a Lewis Beatty (Lineage > 1), having the data for all the other census years on him. He is not listed > in the Genealogy.com 1870 index under the normal variations (Baty, Baity, > Batey, Beatie, Beattie, Beatty, Beaty, Beattey, Betty etc.). Donna found him > the hard way by going to the county and township he lived in 1860 and > searched the 1870 residents until she found him. When she sent me the data I > wondered how Genealogy.com had missed him, so I pulled up the 1870 image > which looked like it could have been interpreted as BENTLY. When I went back > to the Genealogy.com index I then found him....listed as LEWIS BENTTZ.! A > spelling variation I would never have thought to check! > > So....Researchers beware....like DAR records, family bibles, county (vanity) > histories, etc., these new indexes are not without errors! > > Nelda > > Nelda L. Percival nee Gilpin, IBSSG > Beatty #005 & #10; Graves #231 & #105 > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/ > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gillock/ > http://www.doodleartgraphics.com/ > > > > ==== AMREV-HESSIANS Mailing List ==== > For Hessian research in Canada contact the Marilyn Adams Genealogical Research > Centre, Ameliasburg, Ontario e-mail 7thtownmagrc@kos.net or check the mail list > archives of this list for address. > You can search the archives for a specific message or browse them, going from > one message to another. > To search: http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/?list=AMREV-HESSIANS > To browse: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/AMREV-HESSIANS-L > **************** > This list was started by Johannes Helmut Merz, Hessian researcher. >