Getting a census
index just right requires a lot of people – especially those whose families are
being indexed.
We have all heard comments about the 1940 census. We applaud
it’s amazingly quick availability though we are often frustrated by
the inability to find select individuals. Sometimes it’s “operator error” in that we are
not looking in the correct places, sometimes it’s name variants (just because
we spell a surname a certain way now doesn’t mean it was spelled the same way
in 1940), and sometimes it is that the index is in error.
I won’t talk about the first two items and there is a way
for you to help improve the 1940 census, especially indexing errors! Check out this post
on the ancestry.com Blog which
discusses how YOU can make the index
for the 1940 census better for all of us!
Have you found indexing errors for which you have submitted
alternate info? If so, please share some
of the corrections you have submitted!
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Upfront with NGS reader Janey Joyce shares
ReplyDelete"I have yet to spend much time with the 1940 census, but did find my father indexed as William O. Eanes, not William O. Eaves.
Looking at the digitized census record for him the v looks more like an n than a v. But the given names and ages of all of the members of his household were correct so there is no doubt that it was him.
It is easy to make such corrections in ancestry.com and I already have done so."