[Genealib] Finding missing people in ancestry

[suttonl at co.oakland.mi.us]

I want to thank all the people who have sent suggestions for searches 
through the list. Some I use regularly; others I had forgotten about; and 
some were new to me. Just goes to show that when looking for that elusive 
ancestor you need to think outside the box and even those of us that have 
been doing it for years can learn new ways to do something.

Linda Sutton
Oakland County Research Library

---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:18:05 -0500
>From: "Deena Butta" <dbutta at glenviewpl.org>  
>Subject: [Genealib] Finding missing people in ancestry  
>To: "'Librarians Serving Genealogists'" <genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu>
>
> 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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