This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: waroper Surnames: Roper Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.roper/1923.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Frank: You are CORRECT that I was skeptical about the reports of a Joseph ROPER in Lincoln County, TN, when Ancestry was showing this Joseph ROPER to be residing in Jackson County, TN. Ultimately, I realized that there was a systemic problem as to the Ancestry presentation of the 1820 Census data for Lincoln and given the very poor mechanisms for feedback reporting to Ancestry.com decided that the best approach was to push a report of the defect out onto the Lincoln County Message Board and trust that someone better networked with Ancestry would secure the correction of these records: "Systemic Problem with Indexing and Presentation of 1820 Census Data for Lincoln County at Ancestry" (21 Jan 2013 9:11AM GMT) http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.tennessee.counties.lincoln/1742/mb.ashx Ancestry has since fixed the 1820 Lincoln data. However, I was less successful at remembering the discovery of the problem, as my older notes in several places reflected that Joseph ROPER was in Jackson rather than Lincoln, TN. I have CORRECTED the post "ROPERs Households in the 1820 Census for Tennessee" to reflect that Joseph ROPER IS in Lincoln County rather than Jackson County, TN. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>