checking on 1930 for 1940 spelings is not allowed. I should know because I talked with hadquarters about it. David S. On 8/4/2012 2:09 AM, Samuel Levee wrote: > My family in the 1940 census is listed as Goldford, even though the name is clearly printed by the enumerator as Goldfarb. I couldn't understand how two different indexers could make the same obvious error. Helen's comment explained it. > > In the 1930 census the wrong name of Goldford was also used. Two wrongs don't make a right. Indexers of the 1940 census should have written down what they saw and not concerned themselves with what was in the 1930 census. Any of us that have reviewed census records know that enumerators make spelling errors and their writing is not always clear. When you see something clearly written, use that info, irregardless of what someone thought they saw when indexing a previous census.