A GREAT lesson for all. Thanks Tom. Ann In a message dated 7/16/2006 12:01:15 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Hello Evelyn and List. ANYONE RESEARCHING IRISH SURNAMES ON ANCESTRY.COM SHOULD READ THIS !!! Evelyn, I found your Thomas, Anna & son William McHugh in the 1930 census and forwarded the image tio you. If you have not received it, please contact me. Ancestry.com has butchered the processing of some Irish surnames in some of their programs, not just the census records. Names starting with "Mc" such as McHugh were often erroneously transcribed as Mc Hugh with a space between the Mc and the rest of the name. In the 1930 census for Jersey City there are 77 McHughs found if you enter McHugh in the search bloc. The problem is that there were about 130 McHughs in JC in the 1930 census. If you input the name erroneously with a space between Mc and Hugh (Mc Hugh), you will find another 53 McHughs that the original search did not locate, including Evelyn's missing Thomas, Anna, and son William. Ancestry.com had also butchered the transcription of surnames begining with "O' ". If you input my surname in the search bloc, the response will be "Your Exact Search for O'Hare returned no matches." Ancestry has dropped the apostrophe in names begining with O'. As a result you can never get an accurate search response for those names without corrupting the name, such as "ohare". Ancestry has also input a number of O' names incorrectly by reporting the O as a middle initial and the rest of the name as the surname.Thus in 1930 in Binghamton, N.Y. Margaret O'Hare was incorrectly transcribed as Margaret O. Hare, and is indexed under surname Hare, not her real surname O'Hare. Having a degree of poor quality in their product is one thing, but not owning up to it is quite another. These flaws were reported to Ancestry by me on several occasions, but they have ignored my complaints. Recently I have filed a complaint with the BBB, Utah. Use caution when using Ancestry.com for Mc and O' Irish surnames. Tom O'Hare, Buffalo, N.Y. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 9:27 PM Subject: [NJHUDSON-L] Re: NJHUDSON-D Digest V06 #99 > Anyone with access to the 1930 Federal Census for Jersey City could help > me > a great deal by sending me the image from my father's parent's entry. > > I spent years trying to find my Dad, Arthur McHugh and his parents Anna > (Sprenger) and Thomas McHugh without success and thought the census had > simply > missed them when I could not find a baby Arthur anywhere that was the > correct > age with the correct parents. I did not have an exact DOB for Thomas, but > I > did know that Anna was born in 1909 or 10, depending upon whom and what > you > believed. > > Last weekend, I decided to give it one last shot by using the Ancestry > free > 3 day trial, and I found a couple with the correct names and ages living > in > JC with a baby "William" aged nine months. That Thomas was born in 1908, > which > fits the information I have and it apparently explained a part of the > family > rift that happened when my grandfather died in 1934 - that Irish Catholic > "William" (named after Thomas' brother in law) became "Arthur", > rechristened as > a Lutheran and renamed after Anna's father's brother in law and lifelong > best friend, Arthur Bowden when Anna returned home to live with her > parents > after her husband died. > > As you can guess, this filled in a lot of holes in family history for us, > mainly why none of the McHugh's talked to the Sprengers until my late > father was > nearly fifty years old - and why Dad refused to have anything to do with > religion or religious services or talk about his upbringing. > > I tried to send myself the image, but Ancestry sent me only a link, and > will > not let me access the information without plucking down my credit card for > the infamous "14 day free trial", which I refuse to do. If anyone could > send me > the information, it would be very much appreciated. The three of them were > living on Bartholdi Avenue, just a short way from the Sprenger's and > McHugh's > family homes. > > Thanks for any help - > > Evelyn McHugh > Researching McHugh, Rehill, Sprenger and Kraft from Jersey City from > 1900 - > 1960. > > > =epm= > > Ask not why the rose has thorns. > Rather rejoice that the thornbush has a rose. > - Anonymous > > > ==== NJHUDSON Mailing List ==== > New people subscribe to and unsubscribe from the list each week. > You are encouraged to resubmit your queries two or three times > per year to reach new listmembers. > > ==== NJHUDSON Mailing List ==== Visit the Hudson County N.J. GenWeb page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~njhudson/ Annie NJ