Sue, I've found discrepancies on ancestry, LDS and all kinds of census records.  The census-takers could only input what they were told. My husband's family came through Ellis Island and I could never find their records.  I finally decided that maybe they were listed as ColGuhoun instead of the correct ColQuhoun.  Sure enough, there they were.  You have to be creative.  You're right - that's part of the fun!  I think I read too many Nancy Drew books....     Harry and Sharon Moore Colquhoun Yardville, NJ Our family website http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hscc/ From: Susan Lynch <lizzytish@comcast.net> To: BMacKie <lumackie@gmail.com>; njhunter@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, April 2, 2012 9:22 AM Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] census indexes I'm an indexer for Family Search.  I pride myself on being accurate.  Someone earlier posted that the directions didn't help them index.  They're pretty clear to me.  There is a button to push that marks the space "writing unclear" .  There is a button to push to make the space blank.  If you don't know one letter you put ?.  If you don't know a series of letters you but *.  That's all in the boxes to the lower right when you are indexing.  Also…you are forced to double check anything unusual before your work is submitted.  When human beings are involved things aren't always perfect.  Census sometimes have funny names in them or girls are boys and boys are girls.  Ages change, birth countries change. I subscribe to Genealogy Bank.  Great place to get newspaper articles.  Lots of articles from the Trenton Times about Lambertville, Hopewell, Pennington, etc. I found an article detailing a stove exploding.  My grandmother always had a little piece of something lodged in her cheek. The article explains that a stove had exploded because of a bad seal in the "water back".  It listed the people in the house at the time .  My grandmother and my Aunt Doris were injured.  Not seriously.  My grandfather was there and a whole bunch of kids.  My father is one of eight.  One child who I didn't know was listed as Bobby.  Another was listed as June.  I had no idea.  Then I thought about it.  Still confused.  Asked my father…Bobby was his sister Gladys who was call Bub and June was his brother Ray who they called Junie because he was a junior.  No one to blame.  The newspaper reporter or the typesetter put what they thought was right.  And 80 years later it took several of us to put the puzzle together.  To me…that's what keeps genealogy interesting. Yes, it can be annoying, but we are all supposed to verify our information enough and double check so that we can put the pieces together. I'm sorry that you've had so much trouble finding your records. Susan Mauer Lynch researching (in Hunterdon) Wyckoff, Schenck, Cowdrick, Stout, Holcombe, Titus On Apr 2, 2012, at 11:08 AM, BMacKie wrote: > 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. > > Jan, don't get your hopes up on the quality for FamilySearch...as I stated in an earlier post, they recently had a Cox listed as CASH (another family name altogether. Even I, twenty years ago as a novice researcher knew that the name on the record ("Cocke") was Cox. How did somebody get CASH out of Cocke anyway?  "Cocke" is an archaic spelling of "Cox".  But FamilySearch won't change it from Cash to Cox.  Now that ticked me off a little.  > > > > > ________________________________ > From: "janalpert@aol.com" <janalpert@aol.com> > To: njhunter@rootsweb.com > Sent: Monday, April 2, 2012 7:01 AM > Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] census indexes > > 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 > > 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 > 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 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