I agree. I have found names spelled totally wrong in the Ancestry index. Another hint: If it is a young man you are looking for, it is entirely possible that he was living and working somewhere else as a hired hand for a period of time. I found my uncles and great-uncles all over the place in Columbia County, working as laborers on farms. Another relative was a chauffeur living on-site. Hard to guess where to look. They can even turn up in adjacent counties. -----Original Message----- From: nycolumb-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:nycolumb-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Cathy Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 3:01 PM To: nycolumb@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NYCOLUMB] Census Records for 1920 Pat, I won't bet on that. Instead, I would bet that someone when indexing the surname may have misread the name entirely. If you use Ancestry to look for the census, then use their advanced search and put in first name, state or country of birth and an approximate year of birth. Leave out the last name altogether and try your search that way. I've found many families that way because the indexer didn't read the name correctly. Luckily when I do find them, Ancestry has a way to add an "alternate" name and so I add the correct name there so that anyone searching in the future will easily find the family. Happy Hunting! Cathy At 07:39 PM 8/11/2009 -0400, you wrote: >Can I assume if I have a World War I Draft Registration and am unable to >find the person in the 1920 Hudson census that that person was in the >service? I have found them in 1910 and 1930, but nothing for 1920. > > > >Pat Belterman > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >NYCOLUMB-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYCOLUMB-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message