[or-roots] Heritage Quest quandry

Mon Oct 24 17:39:07 PDT 2011

I too have seen this it appears the transcriber was looking at the wrong line or ??, I have seen 

others added to a family that did not even live in the same house, so you have to be alert 

for transcription errors. 

Glen Jones  

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From: "Paulette" <pswitzertatum at peoplepc.com> 
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Subject: Re: [or-roots] Heritage Quest quandry 

Dale and Glen, 

I don't have access to ancestry.com at home, just heritageQuest census, but I have some trouble navigating it; what other feature do you mean RE: looking at the 1830, 1840, 1850 census on heritage? 

I have been looking up/verifying some census records on FamilySearch on families I'm researching, but there is usually some weird census taker error that is not accounted for or transcribed to make sense, and I can't get them to see what I'm asking about. For example, in the 1870 census for Linn County, Missouri, where my ancestor Samuel Sumner is supposed to be the head of the Household, with his wife, daughter, and son - when I look at his page for the census on FamilySearch, there is a 4 year old Baker child on the HH line, so she is included on the family page as HH! This makes the Sumner son on the last line of the Sumner family drop down to be the HH of the next family - too strange! If I look at the image, I can see what the transciber is not allowing for - the same error by the census taker is all down the page. If that happens to me when I am referring to family I know about for sure, I can only cringe at what errors come up for people who are new to census info on familysearch! 

Many thanks, 

Paulette 

-----Original Message----- 
From: Dale Harguess 
Sent: Oct 24, 2011 3:49 PM 
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Subject: Re: [or-roots] Heritage Quest quandry 

When you say they don't have the full census, what do you mean by that?  I have found some indexing errors but I found the same errors in the census indexes at my local library.  As an example I have a family in Illinois that the head of household was not indexed in 1850 but his married daughter who was living with the family was.  That was the only way I was able to find them. 
Heritage quest doesn't have the 1850, 1840, or 1830 census' indexed at all.  You have to use the other feature to look at them. 
Dale 

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Glen Jones < glenkc7mbm at comcast.net > wrote: 

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Another Caution Heritagequest does not always have the full census online, 

but only a partial, don't know the reason maybe did not scan it all??. 

Glen Jones 

From: "Dale Harguess" < daleharguess4 at gmail.com > 
To: "or-roots mail list" < or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us > 
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 10:39:38 AM 
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Heritage Quest quandry 

Probably because Nevada didn't become a state until 1864. 
Dale 

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Leslie Chapman < opera_70 at yahoo.com > wrote: 

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I was looking for a buttonhole relative and find according to Family Search he is in  

name:  James Arthur 
residence: , Nevada, California 
ward:          Bloomfield Township 

Oops, pay attention Les, I couldn't find this census in Nevada, but part of the reason is obviously because it is in California, but back to what inspired this email, when I go to browse the 1860 Nevada census on Heritage Quest, there isn't any Nevada.  

If someone else has HQ could they check to see if that is my glitch or their lack? 

Les C 
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