How to Correct Census Indexing Error in Household spanning 2 Pages of Census? (1940)

THornsby

I've run across a husband (head) and wife on the bottom 2 lines of a page in the 1940 census. It looks to me like those are the only 2 in the attached family record index.

Going to the next page there are 2 sons, aged 15 and age 8. But these don't appear to be attached in the index to the household record...?

I tried to correct the relationship to the head of household/parents but it's only giving me options of other head on the same page. Not sure how to get the 2 sons on the page associated with the 2 parents household record on the previous page...??? (I'm somewhat of a newbie so maybe I'm not looking at it correctly)

First page: scroll to lines 79, 80 (Ely, Walter Sr (head), & Lucy)

"https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9MY-ZZLD?view=index&personArk=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AK4SL-7KN&action=view

Next page: lines 1 and 2 (Walter Jr age 15, George age 8

"https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9MY-ZZLK?view=index&personArk=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AK4SL-7KV&action=view

I may not be reading this correctly - but it looks like the two sons are not included in the head of household family record for this index entry...? Thanks

Paul W

Someone familiar in the use / editing of these census records will be able to advise, but I do think there is some way around this.

Not so for the indexed, census collections for England & Wales, where these spread-over-two-pages household records can't be connected: so the impression is either of missing children from a large family, or that a young child is head of the household. At least you can view the US census images on FamilySearch, whereas even finding the "other half" of an England & Wales household record in FamilySearch can be extremely difficult.

I believe one workaround is to add the sources for the two, separate pages to your Source Box, then add both pages to each of the individuals in the household.

MinnWisRoots

THornsby

I've done the basic relationship fix for you. I noticed that the attached link on Walter Sr's page still does not show Walter Jr., so you may need to delete and reattach for him to show up (and any others that happens with).

Since the 1940 Census was not set up with all the fields inserted and highlighted like the 1950 Census (it is the first, and only census, set up for full editing so far (and still being revised); the 1940 Census has to be manually highlighted, additional fields can be added by hand, however their names are not always obvious).