I hope this request and comment will be considered as constructive and positive. Could the lookup volunteer post the resource used for the lookup? Especially when no match is found for the person(s), the requester knows where not to try looking again. I believe everyone will agree that the resources are far from errorless--whether the enumerator's error or the transcriber's. Yesterday I went to a large library with a list of "missing" (in online database searches) persons in various census years and locations. I used the 1860 Tennessee book index to find one family whose location I knew but that would not appear on AncestryPlus. With more information I was able to locate them. HOH Perry WOMBLE was indexed in the book as Percy WAMBLE, but no match was found online for that either. Then I entered only WAMBLE with the correct county and district, but still did not find Perry. His wife's name is common and matched more than one person, but one child's uncommon name and age was an obvious match to the info in the book index. From that I found the WAMBLE/WOMBLE household data where poor Perry wasn't Perry nor Percy--he was HOSEY! No image is available so I cannot judge the difficulty of transcribing, but the book data published before computer databases existed was certainly closer. Still did not see the image with the neighbors which was my main goal. Is resource info a possiblity? Are there any prohibitions against posting that? Thanks for thinking about it. Peg
I have been told on another list NOT to name the resources I have for lookups....I don't know why.... --- pegmws@mindspring.com wrote: > I hope this request and comment will be considered > as constructive and > positive. Could the lookup volunteer post the > resource used for the lookup? > > Especially when no match is found for the person(s), > the requester knows > where not to try looking again. I believe everyone > will agree that the > resources are far from errorless--whether the > enumerator's error or the > transcriber's. Yesterday I went to a large library > with a list of "missing" > (in online database searches) persons in various > census years and > locations. I used the 1860 Tennessee book index to > find one family whose > location I knew but that would not appear on > AncestryPlus. With more > information I was able to locate them. HOH Perry > WOMBLE was indexed in the > book as Percy WAMBLE, but no match was found online > for that either. Then I > entered only WAMBLE with the correct county and > district, but still did not > find Perry. His wife's name is common and matched > more than one person, but > one child's uncommon name and age was an obvious > match to the info in the > book index. From that I found the WAMBLE/WOMBLE > household data where poor > Perry wasn't Perry nor Percy--he was HOSEY! No image > is available so I > cannot judge the difficulty of transcribing, but the > book data published > before computer databases existed was certainly > closer. Still did not see > the image with the neighbors which was my main goal. > > Is resource info a possiblity? Are there any > prohibitions against posting > that? > > Thanks for thinking about it. > > Peg > > > ==== TN-CENSUS-LOOKUP Mailing List ==== > NOTICE: The posting of any emails other than a > lookup request or reply to a lookup request are NOT > ALLOWED and may result in immediate removal from > this list > CENSUS LOOKUPS HOME PAGE > http://www.rootsweb.com/~censlook/ > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the > new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click > to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools