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What is going on with the 1850 US Census?

km41566
km41566 ✭
March 13 edited March 13 in Search

Does anybody know what is going on with the 1850 US Census? All the names now appear out of order, so the head of the household is a lot of times not listed first. New citations have also been created for these records and it lists the 2 people that are listed first, which a lot of times are children of the head of the household! I use the citations on other sites for research and not only do they not contain a clickable link anymore, but the citation makes no sense now. I sure hope that there are not plans to do this with other census records!

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  • N Tychonievich
    N Tychonievich mod
    March 16

    @km41566 Would you provide us with a URL or 2 so we can see the problems you have seen in the 1850 Census?

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  • km41566
    km41566 ✭
    March 22

    Here is one example:

    United States Census, 1850", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZY6-CG6 : Sun Mar 12 22:42:15 UTC 2023), Entry for Mathew Abbott and Penelope Abbott, 1850.

    The head of the household is William Abbott, but he appears at the bottom of the household list. I have seen the same thing over and over again for Georgia census records for 1850.

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