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May 12, 2022 edited December 23, 2024 in Blog Comments EN

imageIncorrect U.S. Census Information—When the Census Taker Gets It Wrong • • FamilySearch Blog

By Jan MayerOn the first U.S. census day (August 2, 1790), 17 United States marshals and around 650 assistants1 began the task of finding an…

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  • AlissaCarlson
    AlissaCarlson ✭
    May 12, 2022

    the record on my family search is correct -Doris Eliza Campbell was born in July 1920 but in the 1950 census it has her listed as born in or around 1911.

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  • PierreBierre1
    PierreBierre1 ✭
    November 6, 2022

    Jan, what about correcting digitization errors in the searchable database? Who owns the searchable database? Are there procedures for making corrections (where the database record deviates from the handwritten Census page)?

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  • GregNewman1
    GregNewman1 ✭
    January 5, 2023 edited January 5, 2023
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    I'm fine with this document. That's how some people write their letters.

    But I want the electronic database to be correct in its typed out transcription of what the document actually says.

    Here, the database says this is the Haggins family, but it is the Huggins, my family. It is not Francis Haggins but Frances Huggins.

    You can see that every real "i" is dotted above it; Huggins dotted i, Georgia dotted i and Hollin dotted i. Somehow with the same i-type of e in Jane and Georgia, as I red arrowed to those in the image, the transcriber got it correct interpreting the i as an e. Unfortunately for decades of genealogists who saw those mistakes and assumed this to be the Mrs. Francis Haggin family with no ties to anybody or from anywhere descendents or ancestors, ;d, this is one of the reasons why nobody knows who Frances Adams Huggins is.

    And why it was interpreted/transcribed as Haggins is impossible to premise due to it being clearly HUggins with no discernible except in the girls' chosen names.

    I WILL PURSUE THIS. CORRECTING AN ELECTRONIC DATABASE IS AND SHOULD BE EASY TO DO. WISH ME LUCK.

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