As long as we are talking about ancestry. Noticed awhile back that a number of my ancestors living in Lancaster, Lancaster Co. PA were listed in the WW1 draft registration as living in Lancaster, Butler Co. PA. The actual registration cards are accurate. Probably wouldn't have noticed, but it is a odd last name. When you find one, you have found them all Janet N. Welty On May 28, 2011, at 3:00 AM, palancas-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Caution about Ancestry and Lancaster Township (Kristine Elliott) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 20:08:36 -0700 (PDT) > From: Kristine Elliott <souriete@yahoo.com> > Subject: [PALANCAS] Caution about Ancestry and Lancaster Township > To: palancas@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <557236.93360.qm@web162002.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > I recently discovered that my great-great-grandfather, who according to Ancestry was living in Earl Township, Lancaster County in the 1880 census. When I went to the Lancaster Historical Society and checked their tax records, it turned out that he lived in East Earl that year. I doublechecked Ancestry, and sure enough, they said he lived in Earl. I took a look at the scan of the actual page, and it said East Earl Township. I complained to them, and they checked and said that they would fix it, but that it would be a long process. > > So, if you use ancestry.com to view census record, do doublecheck the heading on the scan to make sure it matches the data in their indexing. It may be, for all I know, that they only indexed one or two names wrong. Then again, the whole township may be mis-indexed. > > Thanks, > > Triste > --- > > 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 > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the PALANCAS list administrator, send an email to > PALANCAS-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the PALANCAS mailing list, send an email to PALANCAS@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PALANCAS-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of PALANCAS Digest, Vol 6, Issue 40 > *************************************** >