[Genealib] Finding missing people in ancestry

[director at perry.lib.ok.us]

I think we all have Census brickwalls. Even with all my training, I 
have a 3rd great-grandmother who, although she lived in New Orleans 
from the early 1850s until 1904 when she died, I have only been able to 
locate on the 1860 and 1880 census. The rest of the family that she 
should be with is also not findable in those years, though I know with 
absolute certainty they lived there.

Just goes to show that no matter how much training we have, we are also 
our best customers. :)

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Jeffrey Courouleau, MLIS
Head Librarian

Perry Carnegie Library
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Perry, OK, 73077

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----- Original Message -----
From: Deena Butta <dbutta at glenviewpl.org>
Date: Friday, June 23, 2006 4:18 pm
Subject: [Genealib] Finding missing people in ancestry
> hi---
> 
> <<I agree. I have yet to find my grandfather on the Ancestry's 
> 1910 Census,
> with or without Soundex, and I know where he was born in 1909 and his
> brother in 1911.>>
> 
> A wild card search finds some people....type in the first 3 
> letters followed
> by asterisk
> 
> <<Can't find my grandfather on the 1930 either but he shows up 
> where he
> should on the 1920. Fustrating.>>
> 
> My grandfather did not show up in the 1910 until I looked for his
> brother-in-law...turned out my grandfather was his boarder....but they
> enumerator and indexer had mutilated their names so terribly, I 
> only found
> him by browsing.
> 
> <<I need to find time to go through both locations via the 
> microfilm. And
> then I expect that I will have to check the locations of other known
> relatives as well.>>
> 
> You can browse the ancestry censuses, same as microfilm....that is 
> how I
> found those guys: keep on clicking the arrow to "turn the page."
> 
> Deena
> 
> *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``
> Deena Hartray Butta
> Reference Librarian
> Genealogy Specialist
> Glenview Public Library 
> 1930 Glenview Rd.
> Glenview IL  60025
> (847) 729 7500 x152
> www.glenviewpl.org
> 
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