[or-roots] 1880 census

[Leslie Chapman]

Thanks for that tip Cheryl, it's amazing how little I learn about things I
use all the time, I get real locked into doing it the first way I figure it
out and don't even try alternatives.

Barbara burst my bubble on why the indexes are the same, too, I guess the
folks who did the LDS index just blew it.

I am sure glad I never make mistrakes.

les

-----Original Message-----
From: or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
[mailto:or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us]On Behalf Of Cheryl
Fitzsimons
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 9:31 AM
To: or-roots at www.sos.state.or.us
Subject: RE: [or-roots] HQ 1880 census


Les,

Heritage Quest has all the census records from 1790 to 1930.  It just
doesn't have all the years indexed.  They just added the 1880 index.

Instead of using Search you select Browse and then limit it by census year,
state, county, etc.  For the 1880 census, I find my person on the LDS index
and find the location and the page number.  Then I go to Heritage Quest to
see the census record.

I usually use Ancestry at my local Family History Library to find census
records for my ancestors.  But I save census images on my hard drive for my
direct ancestors through HQ by using the Browse feature.  That way I can
link a census image to the person in my genealogy program.

Cheryl







> From: reedsportchapmans at verizon.net
> To: or-roots at www.sos.state.or.us
> Subject: [or-roots] HQ 1880 census
> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:44:43 -0700
>
> Sue sent me the images I was looking for, and then mentions she got them
> from Heritage Quest which startled me since I have been using it for two
or
> three years and never noticed they had 1880.
>
> Turns out they just added it.
>
> So then she tells me Joseph is listed as sister in the Ancestry.com index
> also which leads me to believe as I have for some time that the LDS index
> and apparently Ancestry index also are based on an index created when the
> Census was taken.
>
> The reason I say this is there is absolutely nothing in the images of this
> census to lead anyone to call Joseph his mother's sister. My hypothesis is
> that in the original notes Christiana was listing her children; then
adding
> after Rachel "and her next sister is" and so on, in the process of
> transferring this info from notes to some index form the transcriber
> converted the relationship to Rachel to each child's relation ship to the
> mother. The fact that there is no occupation listed for the last child in
> the Census image might bear this out, but I don't think the indexes were
> created from original notes, so how the heck did that mistake get in there
> since the children are all clearly marked correctly as son or dau.
>
> Oh well enough of my blather.
>
> Les
>
>
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