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    1. Conference Update & Major Discovery on 1910 Graves County Census
    2. Bill Utterback
    3. My friends - I am again stopping by with a daily conference numbers update. But, before going to that topic, our good friend Mary Louise Gossum, one of our tenured subscribers and an excellent researcher, has made a major discovery of an error in the 1910 Graves County census. There are approximately 32 pages of this census which have been misplaced into the 1910 Floyd County census. These pages appear in both the Heritage Quest and Ancestry.com databases for the 1910 Floyd County census, which indicates that this was an error by either the census bureau originally in misplacing sheets(and I tend to believe these may have been loose sheets rather than bound ones, as was the norm)from Graves into Floyd, or by the National Archives, in having inadvertently microfilmed the Graves County sheets as a part of Floyd County. These 32 pages appear to be a part of Magisterial District #1 in Graves County. If you are not finding a family member who is believed - or known - to be in Graves County in 1910, it would be wise to check Floyd County. The indices for both HQ and Ancestry may actually indicate that an individual is present on a certain page in Graves County, but when the page is examined, the person is not there. This would be a prime candidate to be found on the Graves sheets misfiled in Floyd County. I will be sending this information along to ProQuest(owner of Heritage Quest), as well as Ancestry so that this error can hopefully be corrected. Many thanks to Mary Louise for calling this to my attention. As far as I can determine, this is the first time that the discovery has come to light. Moving to the proposed conference in Paducah in the summer, our list of interested parties has increased now to 83. We are continuing to attempt to reach 100 by 10 January for planning purposes. The TN county lists have been notified, as have two regional lists. The Illinois regional lists will be notified today, as well as county lists for the southern part of that state. I will continue to keep the lists updated on a daily basis. -B +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    01/05/2006 12:02:35