I have found really crazy misspellings in the Ancestry indexes. Another hint: young men in those days often went to work on farms or in factories away from home. I found some uncles and great-uncles living on big farms or estates rather than "at home". Young women also went to keep house for grandparents or others. Had another relative who worked as a chauffeur and was listed with that family rather than "at home". On 8/14/09 3:01 PM, "Cathy" <chorn0591@verizon.net> wrote: > 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