Great to always take a gander at what is new and exciting over at Ancestry. |
Ancestry has a Recently Added and Updated Collections section.
Occasionally they'll post one of the US Federal Censuses as being new or updated, and now that I'm combing through my tree I'm seeing that they do indeed correct previous indexing.
Ancestry has had the 1840 Census scanned and indexed for many years now, but I think they are continually improving the indexing. |
For example, I added a location in Illinois for a likely cousin, Catherine (Patterson) Bushart, in the 1900 Census:
Look at what the actual image of the census says:
And even still, the index has now been updated to reflect the place "Marrowbone, Moultrie, Illinois", not even Marrowbone Township.
The lesson I take from this is to look at what the census image says, not what the indexed entry says (that can change).
The 1900 Census seems especially prone to this kind of data entry error.
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Excellent advice.
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