Carole, have you browsed the census page by page? There are 132 images for Sangamon County not including Springfield. Kathleen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carole Hammond" <carole.hammond@comcast.net> To: <ilsangam@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 4:14 AM Subject: Re: [ILSANGAM] 1840 census of Sangamon Co. >>>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 > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > 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 >