I question if Ancestry.com has complete census'. I have looked for relatives that I know were in the United States specifically the Western New York area at the time a census was taken, and not found them. I have also found Gr Grandparents in 1900, not in 1910 and then again in 1920. I know for a fact that they had the same address the whole time. Perhaps the reason is that people were skipped. Not sure - just my theory.

If you read the description, you will find that they did not index pages they could not read. IF you have ever looked at films of census and seen some of the pages, it is no wonder. I too have someone missing from the 1930 Census, Stanley Kruszka a barber who was born April 22 1899. I know he was there, can't find him anywhere. ----- Original Message ----- From: <MYSHOPPE44@aol.com> To: <NYERIE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 8:43 AM Subject: Re: [NYERIE] Census lookup - Buffalo 1930 >I question if Ancestry.com has complete census'. I have looked for >relatives > that I know were in the United States specifically the Western New York > area > at the time a census was taken, and not found them. I have also found Gr > Grandparents in 1900, not in 1910 and then again in 1920. I know for a > fact that > they had the same address the whole time. Perhaps the reason is that > people > were skipped. Not sure - just my theory. > > > ==== NYERIE Mailing List ==== > To contact the List Administrator: Dick Rose <dtrose@cox.net> > See the Archived Messages at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx >

Really not an uncommon thing. The culprit could be, as one person said, they were out shopping. Yes, they might have been skipped for some reason. The name you are looking for might have been spelled some very strange way you might not suspect by the enumerator, or the indexers, trying to read the name read it incorrectly. In my case, Theodore Ehrke was listed as Thomas Corke. Also, If a page was too badly damaged or decayed or the handwriting was just attrocious, those pages were not indexed. It might be helpful, if you haven't tried to do so all ready, to look them up according to their street address. It is a time consuming, but if their correct address is listed, with some patience you can find it. Amy -------Original Message------- From: NYERIE-L@rootsweb.com Date: 01/20/05 08:47:41 To: NYERIE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NYERIE] Census lookup - Buffalo 1930 I question if Ancestry.com has complete census'. I have looked for relatives that I know were in the United States specifically the Western New York area at the time a census was taken, and not found them. I have also found Gr Grandparents in 1900, not in 1910 and then again in 1920. I know for a fact that they had the same address the whole time. Perhaps the reason is that people were skipped. Not sure - just my theory. ==== NYERIE Mailing List ==== To contact the List Administrator: Dick Rose <dtrose@cox.net> See the Archived Messages at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ ============================== Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx

>I question if Ancestry.com has complete census'. I have looked for relatives >that I know were in the United States specifically the Western New York area >at the time a census was taken, and not found them. I have also found Gr >Grandparents in 1900, not in 1910 and then again in 1920. I know for >a fact that >they had the same address the whole time. Perhaps the reason is that people >were skipped. Not sure - just my theory. I think the problem is that indexers are fallible. I needed to find a specific family in 1900 in Buffalo, where I was positive they were. I tried the Ancestry index -- not found. The name was not particularly difficult, and a couple of brothers showed up, but my family was missing. Then I tried Hertage Quest -- same result. I used all my tricks -- first name search, limited by age, birthplace, etc. -- and scanned the couple of hundred results. No joy. At the library yesterday I checked the 1900 city directory for his address, then went to the ED maps, found the right one, mounted the film, and found the family almost instantly. Elapsed time about 5 minutes. The pages (the family was split across a page boundary) were not too difficult to read (a little faded ink, a water stain across the right side), So how did all the indexers miss this family? Carelessness? Is there any quality control? George