I thought I'd forward this on to the list. Received it from another list that I subscribe to. Subject: [CA-CENSUS] 1880 Federal Census LDS Transcription Hi, I wanted to pass on an instance that I have noticed in the 1880 Federal Census Transcription by Family Search (LDS Church). Please pass this on to the lists you belong too. While perusing a township in Wisconsin, I noticed a pattern began to emerge. They had reversed the first and last names in the transcription. For example my ancestor was listed as: van hoosen EDWARD Nora EDWARD etc It should have been indexed as Edward VAN HOOSEN Nora VAN HOOSEN I just got lucky and found them as I knew they were in the township but the search function wasn't finding them. My point here is this: I think this problem may be widespread in the transcription. It would be a real good idea if you can't find someone you know should be there to reverse the names in the search and you might be surprised to find them. I found most of the Fountain, Juneau, WI transcription to have this problem. Tiffany Surnames: Van Hoosan, Van Hoosen, Holmes Applegate, Goodeill, Salyer, Henderson, Miller, Møller and Pourner http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/p/o/u/Tiffany-M-Pourner/ http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/6338/genealogy.html ICQ# 1508831 AIM ID Ladytanari Robin (Clark) Niell [email protected] "Some family trees have beautiful leaves, but some just have a bunch of nuts. REMEMBER....it is the nuts that make the tree worth shaking." >From: [email protected] >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: ARINDEPE-D Digest V01 #98 >Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 12:00:04 -0600 > ><< message2.txt >> ><< message4.txt >> ><< message6.txt >> ><< message8.txt >> ><< message10.txt >> _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp