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    1. Re: [PALANCAS] Caution about Ancestry and Lancaster Township
    2. Kristine Elliott
    3. --- If you can't get rid of them ugly old skeletons in the closet, at least teach 'em how to dance funny. Billy C. Wirtz --- On Sat, 5/28/11, Alissa <alissa.booth@comcast.net> wrote: > I've noticed that with Manheim versus > Manheim Township, too.  At least > once I noticed that the census enumerator had written > Manheim on that > particular page but all the other pages in that group had > Manheim > Township written on it.  Must have gotten tired of > writing it!  So it is > not always the transcriber that makes errors. I hope you informed Ancestry. One lazy move on an enumerator's part is not an excuse for mis-identifying the location of the people on the page, let alone more than one page of people. > ALSO, some of the draft registrations for WWI and II come > up for the > name you were searching for but show the card  for > another person.  I > have found that you can track your person down by going > through the > directories at the top. All the names are in alphabetical > order but may > be in a different section. I don't know how to explain it > clearly at the > moment without an example at hand, but if anyone comes > across this and > wants help, just email me. I've had that trouble in the past; thanks for giving me the solution! I'll try that next time I run into that problem. Thanks, Triste

    05/28/2011 12:12:10