[or-roots] whining -- census indexing

Chris & Bill Strickland lechevrier at earthlink.net
Tue Apr 25 14:45:04 PDT 2006


Now, while I am not a big fan of the Ancestry.com conglomerate, I must 
say that for searching the census, I find I am able to have more success 
with less frustration by going down to the local FHC and using their 
Ancestry subscription when I need to 'search' the census, such as when I 
am just not finding what I want using Heritage Quest, which requires a 
pretty exact match to whatever the data is entered as -- Bogert would 
qualify -- one of my 3rd great grand father's presumed siblings, 
Margaret Ebner, married a Joseph Bogart maybe around 1800 in Columbia 
County, PA

Ancestry's soundex search algorithm just seems to get the job done 
better than anyone else's method.

[And we'll see if posting knocks me onto No Mail again ...  it is some 
sort of technical glitch that I hope is now fixed]

Bill Strickland



More information about the or-roots mailing list