[or-roots] to ditto or not to ditto

[Sue Steward]

In hindsight, with a town the size of Gardiner you could have just 
browsed the whole thing to find it.

Sue

On 4/8/2012 6:07 PM, Leslie Chapman wrote:
> Yes,
> if you can clearly read what the census taker wrote, you are required 
> to spell it just the way it is in the record, I have a dispute with my 
> arbitrator over whether De Loris had a space in it or not, but that 
> was how either Delores spelled her name, or the census taker thought 
> it should be spell so that is the way I wrote it, 
> the arbitrator removed the space but left the L in caps which is 
> certainly right. My ggf Milan Melvin is spelled indexed Milen Milven 
> in the 1880 index and most of the rest of the family is just as bad, 
> ironically Milan junior is clearly Milin and the index calls him Milvin.
>
> That was what I meant when talking with David about this last night, 
> if I had been indexing that page I would clearly have tried to slip 
> ggf name past the arbitrator with the correct spelling, I finally 
> found them by brute force in the index as for some reason even with 
> exact spelling off the Family search couldn't find the family for me, 
> once I had the index page it was easy finding the image in HQ, but I 
> bet I spent four or five fruitless hours searching before that because 
> it never occurred to me the census taker in the burgeoning metropolis 
> of Gardiner, OR could butcher his name that bad.
>
> Les C
>
>
>
> --- On *Sun, 4/8/12, CeCe Moore /<cecemoore at hotmail.com>/*wrote:
>
>
>     From: CeCe Moore <cecemoore at hotmail.com>
>     Subject: Re: [or-roots] to ditto or not to ditto
>     To: "or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us "
>     <or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us>
>     Date: Sunday, April 8, 2012, 5:47 PM
>
>     Thanks, Les! I am reading the box on the bottom right, but many
>     times it doesn't address my questions. They sometimes highlight in
>     red unusual last names. I look them up to make sure I am reading
>     them and spelling then correctly, but it is still highlighted. One
>     of the census takers misspelled a town and it was highlighted so I
>     changed the spelling to make the red box go away. One said
>     "Anajean" but stayed red until I changed it to Anna Jean (which
>     was her actual name in other records). Should I just be ignoring
>     the red if I know it is correct?
>     Thanks for the advice!
>     CeCe
>     Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
>
>
>
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