[or-roots] HQ 1880 census

[Paulette]

I thought ancestry.com was owned by the LDS Church, or at least by LDS members. RootsWeb is part of this system, as are other search sites, I think.

Paulette

-----Original Message-----
>From: Barbara Wulf <wulf at bendbroadband.com>
>Sent: Mar 12, 2007 12:56 PM
>To: or-roots at www.sos.state.or.us
>Subject: Re: [or-roots] HQ 1880 census
>
>Actually Ancestry did not do their own index.  They used the one from the
>LDS volunteers. LDS links to the Ancestry pages.  My assumption is the LDS
>library agreed to have Ancestry use their index and Ancestry agreed to have
>LDS link to their pages. Who knows why.
>
>Barb
>wulf at bendbroadband.com
>http://home.bendcable.com/wulf/Project/siteMapNoImage.htm
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Leslie Chapman" <reedsportchapmans at verizon.net>
>To: "Oregon List" <or-roots at www.sos.state.or.us>
>Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 7:44 AM
>Subject: [or-roots] HQ 1880 census
>
>
>> 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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