Am I crazy or is the transcribed indexing on 1830 & 1840 NC Census missing??
I have been researching the NC 1830 and 1840 census's and have come across multiple pages where the original document persons are missing on the transcribed index. I started my research as follows and if this is the problem please let me know.
In Familysearch.org home page I click on NA/Canada, United States, Online Genealogical Records, state of North Carolina, and Census. On the search page to insert information, I use only the last name "Mills" and only "residence" search for the years 1830-1830 (or 1840-1840, whichever I want to research). It then brings up a list of who are on the index. I open the original document and can see the transcribed information at the bottom of the page. People are missing on this list from the above original document and as a medical transcriptionist of 24 years plus helping to index the 1950 census just this summer, I see a lot of gross misspellings (not just phonetic). This happens on multiple pages on both census years and several pages I've looked for my ancestors. I tried to attach both documents but the transcribed list may not open so I typed a partial list starting from the top line of census. This needs a radical re-indexing or just let me know if "I am crazy please!!"
Aaron Toney
Reuben Jackson
Aey Young
John Mills
Gabriel Jackson
Joseph Kilpatrick
Svinder Mills
Wiley Latter
William McGuinn
Mary Cockman
William Mills
John H Latter
Mary Morris
Sarah Hopkins
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Sheila J. Griggs
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Is this the page you're asking about? https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYTB-JXV?i=164
I see 27 names on the Image Index tab, and 27 names on the image. I did not check every single name, but I did not find anyone on the page who wasn't in the index, nor anyone in the index who wasn't on the page, modulo misreadings ("Aey" instead of "Asey", "Svinder" instead of "Lavender").
Are you expecting the index tab to be in the same order as the page? They very seldom are. The image index tab is assembled from individual index entries that have been associated with that image. The order that those individual entries appeared on the page is not generally preserved anywhere in the index: there is no indexing field for the line number. Therefore, the entries are essentially randomly sorted, by some internal file number or date stamp.
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Julia,
Thank you for your reply but I have always seen the indices in order as the transcribed information. I can understand that it not being in an order will happen but I had not seen that until lately. When I asked this question, there were people missing on the transcribed index and "gross" misspelling of names, not just phonetic which is common, but not even the same persons name. Thank you for taking the time but this is still not resolved. I believe it is a technical issue and not a handwritten issue.
Sheila😊
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@SheilaGriggs It is horribly frustrating to not be able to find an ancestor in a record or place that you know he should appear. So glad that you are noticing things that might make it difficult for yourself and others to find ancestors. This example doesn't quite fit, as you have mentioned that some people are missing from the index, where this one doesn't have any missing individuals. You have mentioned seeing other instances of both the missing individuals and gross misspellings. If you could post other examples here, it would be immensely helpful for us to send to the engineers and project managers so they would be able to pinpoint why the index is not matching with the Census record. Thank you for your help!
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