[Genealib] Finding missing people in ancestry

[Sandy Day]

Hi
I just had an interesting case that I researched Ancestry Library Edition 
seeking the surname D'AURORA in Jefferson Co Ohio. I searched 1900-1920 
Jefferson Co Ohio and found nothing even when I did a search without listing 
a county. Then when we tried a seperate tactic of searching for another 
surname connected to the family in Jefferson County we found the first 
family with the following misspelling-DEROVA. This spelling did not come up 
with Soundex search either. This second search showed the person as a 
boarder with the DEROVA family and was exactly what the patron was seeking. 
Just goes to prove that there is no exact science here!
Sandy Day
Genealogy Librarian
Schiappa Library
Steubenville, OH
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <suttonl at co.oakland.mi.us>
To: "Librarians Serving Genealogists" <genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu>
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 8:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Genealib] Finding missing people in ancestry


> 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
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