Thanks to all who replied to my issue of mistakes. BTW, It was transcription from census to Ancestry, not on the census itself. I will be going to the public library after the Thanksgiving holiday and will try to use the correction? box to imput correct data. Thanks Shirley PS, if it won't work, I will come back here to have one of you great people to imput the info for me. --- [email protected] wrote: > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > If you do not like the format of this digest please > e-mail the administrator and he will switch you to > another format. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Census and/or Transcribing errors in Ancestry > Database > (Dorothy Moritz) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:58:53 -0500 > From: "Dorothy Moritz" > <[email protected]> > Subject: [GEN-COMP-TIPS] Census and/or Transcribing > errors in Ancestry > Database > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Welcome to the club, Shirley. Prpbably most of > us could tell tales of messed up names either on the > original census documents or on the trnscriptions. > Example: I found my Mom in the census when she > was a teenager listed as having the same surname as > her stepfather. Her siblings were also listed with > his name, altho' he never formally adopted any of > them, and they always used the surname of their real > father. And then one of Mom's sisters had a fairly > unusual (for the US) given name and the enumerator > wrote what he heard, which was only the final > syllable of the name. > Another sibling was already married and living > in a separate apartment in the same house and was > listed twice - once with her mother and stepfather > and again with her husband. > I think the reason for all that error in one > household was that they had come from another > country just a few years before, and my GM's English > was still a bit limited. So she undoubtedly listed > her children's given names without thinking to > mention that they had a different surname, and the > enumerator either didn't ask or Gram misunderstood > what he was asking. And since the married daughter > was, after all, still her daughter, she listed her, > as well. And then the enumerator went to the > apartment and wrote those names, assuming my aunt to > be a separate person, with the same rather common > given name. All in all, it was a real puzzle that I > might not ever have solved if I hadn't thought to > check to see if any of my step-grandfather's sons > were also living with him - and lo-and-behold, there > they were! > So in this case it was a combination of a person > with limited English answering questions very > literally and an enumerator who didn't ask quite > enough questions and then assumed some answers that > were not correct. > Best wishes for more successful hunting! > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the GEN-COMP-TIPS list administrator, > send an email to > [email protected] > > To post a message to the GEN-COMP-TIPS mailing list, > send an email to [email protected] > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to [email protected] > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of GEN-COMP-TIPS Digest, Vol 1, Issue 89 > ******************************************** > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com