[Genealib] Finding missing people in ancestry

[suttonl at co.oakland.mi.us]

This is getting to be an interesting thread. Thanks to Drew Smith emailing 
me for more details he was able to find me a possible hit for my missing 
1910 ancestors. They were living in an area of Oklahoma that I had never 
connected them with before. The name had been truncated and while I 
usually check for the truncated name, I somehow missed this family 
possibly because they were where I did not expect them to be.

Again Drew thanks.

Linda Sutton
Oakland County Research Library

---- Original message ----
>Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 00:19:50 -0700
>From: Barbara Hill <bhill at calmail.berkeley.edu>  
>Subject: Re: [Genealib] Finding missing people in ancestry  
>To: Librarians Serving Genealogists <genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu>
>
>   At 02:28 PM 6/23/2006, you wrote:
>
>     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.
>
>   I've heard that the 1870 census was the worst one ever taken in
>   the South and it seems to be true, as I've read an entire East
>   Texas county and several families were missing from it even
>   though they were definitely living there.  Apparently the problem
>   was that the former Confederates were in no mood to comply with
>   the Federal census.
>
>   (Of course this doesn't account for the above case being missing
>   in 1900 also.)
>
>   Barbara Hill
>
>    
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Linda Sutton
Oakland County Research Library
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