[or-roots] Ancestry.com vs HQ census

[Kith-n-Kin]

Good point Les!

I have a sub to Ancestry and use it as my "first" research tool. However,
when something is blurry, or too dark, or whatever, I go to my local
library's HeritageQuest subscription (which I get from home) and check
there. Sometimes the images are better, sometimes not.

Sometimes there is a page missing on Ancestry -- the person's in the index,
but not on the linked image (315), and when you check, you see that the
images go 314, 316 -- so I go to HQ to see, by browsing or the index, if I
can find the person. 

The reverse is also true, of course, but because the index in Ancestry is
more comprehensive, I use it as a start. 

Good point about Uncle Edward also. It's amazing what a little time and
distance from a problem will do for our eyes <G>.

Pat
Tucson, AZ

-----Original Message-----
From: or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
[mailto:or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of Leslie
Chapman
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 8:49 AM
To: Oregon List
Subject: [or-roots] Ancestry.com vs HQ census

Linda and I were comparing census pages on the two sources. In this instance
Ancestry was illegible and I note that it isn't a manner of handling, but in
fact the two emails were from two different reels of microfilm. You folks
want to keep that in  mind when you can't read the info on one source try
the other.

I've been ranting for years about not being able to read Great Uncle Edward
on the 1900 Census in Empire and went to look at it today and for some
reason all this time I thought he was in the middle of the page, actually he
is the first family and quite legible. Huh? The rest of the page is
completely unreadable in Heritage Quest though.

Les C

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