I sent a email to Ancestry Customer Support to see if they can figure out why there is not a first page to this census. Kathleen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carole Hammond" <carole.hammond@comcast.net> To: "Sangamon Co. List" <ILSANGAM-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 4:20 AM Subject: [ILSANGAM] 1840 census of Sangamon Co. > Page #1a is missing on Ancestry's website of the 1840 census of Sangamon > Co. The next page, #1b with the employment information is there. That's > where Sangamon Co. starts. > > It just so happens that my Alex Reeves, according to the index, is on page > 1....but the page one that is shown is actually 1b which is a tally page. > > Does anyone happen to have access to page 1...with the census...of > Sangamon Co's 1840 census. I would really appreciate it if someone could > copy it and forward the picture to me. > > Thanks so much! > Carole > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Have you visited the Sangamon County ILGenWeb site? You can access it at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilsangam/sangamon.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ILSANGAM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >
>>I sent a email to Ancestry Customer Support to see if they can figure out >>why there is not a first page to this census.<< Kathleen, Thanks a lot! I think the census page #1 probably fell out of the book and was just stuck back in elsewhere. The actual page doesn't have a number as the others do but it has a "B" written in the Heads of Families field. I also think that the film that was indexed and the pages that were filmed and put on Ancestry are from two different sources. Those with Genealogy.com access said that Alex Reeves was on page #18. The Sangamon Co. index has it on page #19, I believe, and the Ancestry index has Alex and everyone else on his page as being Page #1. All of these people match the tally page #1. I really appreciate all of the help that has been given me on this. You are a great group! Carole