Good luck getting Ancestry to change anything. Some of us remember when we discussed Bennet's Bagore on this list, a fictional place that shows up on Ancestry for the Kingwood Township census from, I believe 1830 or 1840. Even though the original images clearly said Kingwood Township, that is not what the indexes say. Oh, and they also have a listing for a Black River. It escapes me now what that actually turned out to be. I know they were contacted by people and asked to change it, but they never have. I wish you luck, Bill. Let us all know how you make out. -----Original Message----- From: BMacKie <lu2silly@yahoo.com> To: njhunter <njhunter@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sun, Apr 1, 2012 6:22 am Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Newspaper Deaths in 1895 - Indexed as 1894! Mr. Bill (I love that)....I suggest that nearly all information on Ancestry.com s questionable from the getgo and should never be taken for granted. This is ot a criticism, it is merely an observance over a twenty year period of time. ________________________________ From: Mr. Bill Hartman <mrbill1033@comcast.net> o: NJHUNTER <njhunter@rootsweb.com> ent: Saturday, March 31, 2012 9:12 PM ubject: [NJHUNTER] Newspaper Deaths in 1895 - Indexed as 1894! o change the current DNA hoopla, read on! I have discovered that nearly all the Deaths reported in the Hunterdon epublican newspaper that occurred from January 1, 1895 until June 30, 1895 were ecorded as '1894' in the Listings on Ancestry.com. This was seen in nearly 200 eaths and they occurred not only from deaths in Hunterdon County, but also ther New Jersey Counties. It is my opinion that the error is most likely due to the indexer who read the icrofilm of the originals and typed the wrong year. This opinion needs to be erified by someone who has access to the original data, since the implication ould mean that hundreds of deaths in the time period noted above are suspect. I will contact Ancestry.com and tell them my findings, which you may see by oing to the Hunterdon Republican Website, see below Regards, rBill unterdon Republican newspaper, visit: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njhrna/ isit the Hunterdon County GenWeb page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~njhunter ------------------------------ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NJHUNTER-request@rootsweb.com ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message isit the Hunterdon County GenWeb page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~njhunter ------------------------------ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NJHUNTER-request@rootsweb.com ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message
To Kay and others. I remember the Bennet's Bagore issue and may even have contributed to it; seems like at least 5 or so years ago! The Black River, I believe has been found! While abstracting 1895, I found it as follows : >From HuntRepNews: 15 May 1895 Issue. " Category: Trivia - Train Wreck on the Rockaway Valley R. R. Date: 12 May 1895. A train which left Whitehouse Station at 7 o’clock Sunday evening, plunged down a steep embankment into the Black River at a point near Pottersville. The train consisted of an engine and two cars. ....." The abstract will include a rough drawn map of the area. 1895 may be finished the end of April. I am now doing the end of July! Regarding Ancestry.com, I can't be too hard on them since they are providing a free URL for my Website. However, at this writing, I did receive an automatic email that they had received my notification of the problem. Stay tuned, since I will keep the NJHUNTER family informed!!!!! And for those that looked at the Website early today, I just put up a revised Table of the 228 Deaths at about 10 o'clock AM, Eastern Daylight Savings Time! Regards to all, MrBill Hunterdon Republican newspaper, visit: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njhrna/ ----- Original Message ----- From: kaysfo@aol.com To: lumackie@gmail.com, njhunter@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, April 1, 2012 7:42:56 AM Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Newspaper Deaths in 1895 - Indexed as 1894! Good luck getting Ancestry to change anything. Some of us remember when we discussed Bennet's Bagore on this list, a fictional place that shows up on Ancestry for the Kingwood Township census from, I believe 1830 or 1840. Even though the original images clearly said Kingwood Township, that is not what the indexes say. Oh, and they also have a listing for a Black River. It escapes me now what that actually turned out to be. I know they were contacted by people and asked to change it, but they never have. I wish you luck, Bill. Let us all know how you make out. -----Original Message----- From: BMacKie <lu2silly@yahoo.com> To: njhunter <njhunter@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sun, Apr 1, 2012 6:22 am Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Newspaper Deaths in 1895 - Indexed as 1894! Mr. Bill (I love that)....I suggest that nearly all information on Ancestry.com s questionable from the getgo and should never be taken for granted. This is ot a criticism, it is merely an observance over a twenty year period of time. ________________________________ From: Mr. Bill Hartman <mrbill1033@comcast.net> o: NJHUNTER <njhunter@rootsweb.com> ent: Saturday, March 31, 2012 9:12 PM ubject: [NJHUNTER] Newspaper Deaths in 1895 - Indexed as 1894! o change the current DNA hoopla, read on! I have discovered that nearly all the Deaths reported in the Hunterdon epublican newspaper that occurred from January 1, 1895 until June 30, 1895 were ecorded as '1894' in the Listings on Ancestry.com. This was seen in nearly 200 eaths and they occurred not only from deaths in Hunterdon County, but also ther New Jersey Counties. It is my opinion that the error is most likely due to the indexer who read the icrofilm of the originals and typed the wrong year. This opinion needs to be erified by someone who has access to the original data, since the implication ould mean that hundreds of deaths in the time period noted above are suspect. I will contact Ancestry.com and tell them my findings, which you may see by oing to the Hunterdon Republican Website, see below Regards, rBill unterdon Republican newspaper, visit: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njhrna/ isit the Hunterdon County GenWeb page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~njhunter ------------------------------ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NJHUNTER-request@rootsweb.com ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message isit the Hunterdon County GenWeb page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~njhunter ------------------------------ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NJHUNTER-request@rootsweb.com ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message Visit the Hunterdon County GenWeb page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~njhunter ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NJHUNTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
One more comment, Ancestry indexing is done in Indonesia because it is cheaper. The people doing the indexing are not familiar with American first names. FamilySearch has organized the indexing project for the 1940 census with many genealogy societies participating so access to the census and index is free and the quality is better. I am a society volunteer administrator on the 1940 census, and I will be happy to bring up the issue of being able to add correct spellings to the census index...after this project is well underway. I assume it will require another field in the database and search process. It would likely need to be incorporated in a later software release. Right now they have their hands full with the 1940 census. Jan Alpert Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry® -----Original Message----- From: kaysfo@aol.com Sender: njhunter-bounces@rootsweb.com Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 07:42:56 To: <lumackie@gmail.com>; <njhunter@rootsweb.com> Reply-To: njhunter@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Newspaper Deaths in 1895 - Indexed as 1894! Good luck getting Ancestry to change anything. Some of us remember when we discussed Bennet's Bagore on this list, a fictional place that shows up on Ancestry for the Kingwood Township census from, I believe 1830 or 1840. Even though the original images clearly said Kingwood Township, that is not what the indexes say. Oh, and they also have a listing for a Black River. It escapes me now what that actually turned out to be. I know they were contacted by people and asked to change it, but they never have. I wish you luck, Bill. Let us all know how you make out. -----Original Message----- From: BMacKie <lu2silly@yahoo.com> To: njhunter <njhunter@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sun, Apr 1, 2012 6:22 am Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Newspaper Deaths in 1895 - Indexed as 1894! Mr. Bill (I love that)....I suggest that nearly all information on Ancestry.com s questionable from the getgo and should never be taken for granted. This is ot a criticism, it is merely an observance over a twenty year period of time. ________________________________ From: Mr. Bill Hartman <mrbill1033@comcast.net> o: NJHUNTER <njhunter@rootsweb.com> ent: Saturday, March 31, 2012 9:12 PM ubject: [NJHUNTER] Newspaper Deaths in 1895 - Indexed as 1894! o change the current DNA hoopla, read on! I have discovered that nearly all the Deaths reported in the Hunterdon epublican newspaper that occurred from January 1, 1895 until June 30, 1895 were ecorded as '1894' in the Listings on Ancestry.com. This was seen in nearly 200 eaths and they occurred not only from deaths in Hunterdon County, but also ther New Jersey Counties. It is my opinion that the error is most likely due to the indexer who read the icrofilm of the originals and typed the wrong year. This opinion needs to be erified by someone who has access to the original data, since the implication ould mean that hundreds of deaths in the time period noted above are suspect. I will contact Ancestry.com and tell them my findings, which you may see by oing to the Hunterdon Republican Website, see below Regards, rBill unterdon Republican newspaper, visit: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njhrna/ isit the Hunterdon County GenWeb page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~njhunter ------------------------------ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NJHUNTER-request@rootsweb.com ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message isit the Hunterdon County GenWeb page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~njhunter ------------------------------ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NJHUNTER-request@rootsweb.com ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message Visit the Hunterdon County GenWeb page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~njhunter ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NJHUNTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message