Hi, Krista, Maybe you are running into the same problem I have had. The transcribers cannot read the writing on the censuses and the names become distorted. I found a first name of Jasper spelled Jaktar one year and spelled a different way the next census. Some folks will only have a first initial and some will use their real given name or their nickname. And then there are distortions on those. They are probably in there--if only you can figure out HOW things are spelled Mary ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 8:50 AM Subject: [BAVARIA] Searching Census records in Ancestry > > > I use wildcards a lot. Let's say I'm looking for WOERLE, WOERL, or WOEHRL. > I'd enter the first name (And* for Andreas or Andrew) and the first three > letters of the last name with wildcard "WOE*". If that gave me too many > names, I'd also enter the birth location. > > I still have had a lot of trouble with 1930. I know where my people are, > they're just not in Ancestry's index. This has happened enough that I'm > starting to wonder if it is Ancestry. Don't know, though, they may have > just gotten missed. > > Were you looking only or 1930 Nebraska or also earlier Nebraska (pre-1910)? > > With regards to my earlier post, I thought maybe Bavaria had an indexed > census during the mid-1900's. Did they? Would I need to know where my > ancesters lived exactly? > > Krista > WOERL/BLEICHER in Bavaria > > > > ==== BAVARIA Mailing List ==== > Sister or Brother, > Can you spare $10 dollars to support Rootsweb? > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html#personal > >

Friday, August 8, 2003, 10:23:06 AM, you wrote: M> Hi, Krista, M> Maybe you are running into the same problem I have had. The transcribers M> cannot read the writing on the censuses and the names become distorted. I M> found a first name of Jasper spelled Jaktar one year and spelled a different M> way the next census. Some folks will only have a first initial and some M> will use their real given name or their nickname. And then there are M> distortions on those. M> They are probably in there--if only you can figure out HOW things are M> spelled Quite often, it was the census takers themselves who distorted the names. I found George Haas listed as Gerald Harris and, Peter Borowski as Peter Breska. I was able to find these only because I knew the addresses. In Unterfranken, Bayern: HAAS, WEIGAND, GRIMM, BRUST, LINCK, SITZMANN, STEIN, AUL, HERGOTT Elsewhere: APPEL, BOROWSKI, CERNOHORSKY, DEMBOWCZYK, HAAS, PIETROWIAK, ZARAS