I broke down and took a quarterly subscription. Using information from previous lookups I know what page an ancestor should be on. But when I look on that page on Ancestry they are not there. I tried running a plain ancestry search on one of these people and nothing comes up. Is it me? Thanks for any help. Lori
Lori, I haven't tried to match info to the pages, but doing a "plain" search won't provide you with information on the census because only the census records up to 1830 are searchable by head of household. That's the one drawback to this - I end up paging through the whole record of the township my ancestors were in during the previous census, i.e., if an ancestor was in Millvale in 1880, I start paging through those images in 1900. I've spent many hours going through them and finding anyone in Pittsburgh is a nightmare that way. But I have had some success! When I first took out a subscription, they had very few images and none could be searched. Now you can go to the early ones and search on heads of household. I'm not sure, however, how to find particular pages on ancestry - if someone tells me (from an index of another source) my ancestor is on page 1044B, I don't know how to locate it on the ancestry.com images. Hopefully, someone else can help us there. Marilyn G. ----- Original Message ----- From: Markburgh1@aol.com To: PA-PITTSBURGH-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 5:02 PM Subject: [PITTSBURGH] Ancestry Census Records - Am I Doing Something Wrong? I broke down and took a quarterly subscription. Using information from previous lookups I know what page an ancestor should be on. But when I look on that page on Ancestry they are not there. I tried running a plain ancestry search on one of these people and nothing comes up. Is it me? Thanks for any help. Lori ==== PA-PITTSBURGH Mailing List ==== SUE* MCALISTER-Pittsburgh List Mom ============================== Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate your heritage! http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.292 / Virus Database: 157 - Release Date: 10/26/01