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Judith Arnold

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Legg inn av Judith Arnold » 13 aug 2006 05:16:02

Ancestry does not show the Gabriel Vanderville for 1920.
1910 is had to read but I can read the original of that I think.
What are you looking for.
Did you get 1900 and 1910 that I sent??
Judy

Huntersglenn

Re: Ancestry

Legg inn av Huntersglenn » 13 aug 2006 05:16:03

Ancestry has him indexed as Gabriel Vanderwell. I sent the image to
Kevin, but the section where Gabriel and his family is listed is very
light and difficult to read.
Cathy

Judith Arnold wrote:
Ancestry does not show the Gabriel Vanderville for 1920.
1910 is had to read but I can read the original of that I think.
What are you looking for.
Did you get 1900 and 1910 that I sent??
Judy

k...

Re: Ancestry

Legg inn av k... » 13 aug 2006 05:16:03

"Judith Arnold" <judith@omuonline.net> wrote in message
news:44DE9090.4030501@omuonline.net...
Ancestry does not show the Gabriel Vanderville for 1920.
1910 is had to read but I can read the original of that I think.
What are you looking for.
Did you get 1900 and 1910 that I sent??
Judy


Thanks Judy. I did get your messages, but since I do not have an Ancestry
subscription, I am only able to see the page you sent. I am unable to open
any links on the page. However, I already had the 1900 and 1910 images.

Thanks Again,
Kevin

k...

Re: Ancestry

Legg inn av k... » 13 aug 2006 05:16:03

"Huntersglenn" <huntersglenn@cox.net> wrote in message
news:UswDg.391$JR5.12@dukeread11...
Ancestry has him indexed as Gabriel Vanderwell. I sent the image to
Kevin, but the section where Gabriel and his family is listed is very
light and difficult to read.
Cathy


Thanks Cathy,

The ancestry image is a little bit better than the Heritage Quest image and
with a little enhancement I can take a good guess at the names. It's a shame
that the enumerator couldn't have filled her pen just before my entry rather
than just after.

Kevin

Huntersglenn

Re: Ancestry

Legg inn av Huntersglenn » 13 aug 2006 05:34:49

I replied privately to Judy, but thought I'd share my answer, just in
case anyone else was curious:

I selected the 1920 census year, then search for Gabriel - exact search,
the state and the county, then read down the list of results. Sometimes
you can get lucky by using the first name with the exact search. If
that wouldn't have found him, then I would have tried a soundex search
in the hopes that Gabriel had been spelled incorrectly. And if that
hadn't worked, since soundex doesn't always take into account variant
spellings, I would have spelled Gabriel as Gabrial and then given up if
that didn't work <grin>. Not really. At that point, I would have added
the township, since Kevin supplied that, and searched on the last name
as a soundex. THEN I would have given up if that didn't find him.

Judith Arnold wrote:
Just for my knowing for the future how did you type it in to find it by
the wrong name?? Type ???? I found 1900 and 1910.
Would appreciate knowing for the next time.
Thank you
Judy




Huntersglenn wrote:

Ancestry has him indexed as Gabriel Vanderwell. I sent the image to
Kevin, but the section where Gabriel and his family is listed is very
light and difficult to read.
Cathy

Judith Arnold wrote:

Ancestry does not show the Gabriel Vanderville for 1920.
1910 is had to read but I can read the original of that I think.
What are you looking for.
Did you get 1900 and 1910 that I sent??
Judy





Tara

Re: Ancestry

Legg inn av Tara » 13 aug 2006 16:28:05

"Huntersglenn" <huntersglenn@cox.net> wrote in message
news:7YxDg.398$JR5.1@dukeread11...
I replied privately to Judy, but thought I'd share my answer, just in case
anyone else was curious:

I selected the 1920 census year, then search for Gabriel - exact search,
the state and the county, then read down the list of results. Sometimes
you can get lucky by using the first name with the exact search. If that
wouldn't have found him, then I would have tried a soundex search in the
hopes that Gabriel had been spelled incorrectly. And if that hadn't
worked, since soundex doesn't always take into account variant spellings,
I would have spelled Gabriel as Gabrial and then given up if that didn't
work <grin>. Not really. At that point, I would have added the township,
since Kevin supplied that, and searched on the last name as a soundex.
THEN I would have given up if that didn't find him.



Just to give Judy another option for the future, she could also have used
the beginning of the last name with a wildcard: Van*, on an exact search. It
would have worked with this particular misspelling. I find that works well
with a lot of the longer surnames. The enumerator starts off writing
clearly, than realizes he's running out of room and squashes the end of the
name together, making it tough to transcribe.

The wildcard also works with first names. It's useful when there are many
possible spellings of a name. In this case, Gabr*l would have returned both
the possible spellings above. The soundex option only works on the last name
spelling. The first name is always exact, so the wildcards can be really
handy. I use them a lot with names like Katherine, where she could be
enumerated as Katherine, Kate, Katie or (in later years) Kathy. Kat* covers
them all and saves some time. I can throw in a search for Cat* too, just to
cover all the bases.

--
Tara Larkin
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