Crawford Best wrote: > > My great grandfather Benjamin Best was listed in the 1830 and 1850 census > INDEXES for Fairfield County, SC, but not in the 1840 index. I checked the > actual census and found him there. The name was a little hard to read but he, > the other family members, and their ages, were exactly as they should have been. > > MORAL: the indexes save time but there is no substitute for the primary > document(s). This example was easy to figure out but I expect people could be > easily missed when you rely just on indexes. > > Crawford Best I believe the entire southern district of Duplin County was omitted from the index in, I think it was 1850, but they were on the film. I knew something was wrong when it was missing 3 of our 4 surnames that heavily populated that area! Judy