Census household split across records
All of these are a single household:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6F7L-WYHL
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6F7L-WYHV
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6F7L-WYHK
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6F7L-WYHN
How can they be combined into a single record?
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Indexing is good to get you to look at the targeted area of the larger work.
Remember back to the 2000's even. This was the time when you had the thought: I think my family lived in St.Paul Minn. - I'll pay my $0.10 at the Family History Center, and they'll send me up the whole roll of the 1880 census for (even then) the 10's of thousands of people living there - and I'll come back 2-3 weeks later when it shows up and spend hours scrolling through the microfiche looking for my family name.
Thank heavens for the Indexing program! One thing you should always do is review the image of the source that SourceLinker is having you review. Indexing only pulls out the primary individual, and maybe a secondary. Most but not all census' will group all the family together (I.E.: 1905 census - individual card returns, in alphabetical order). Always look at the image if available - to confirm the indexing of names/dates/locations; and as you have found - to make sure you have all relations accounted for and tied together.
Likely there is no vehicle to be combined into a single record like you are asking. All the names are indexed. Ultimately each will be able to be linked to the source record, just not under the same sourcelinker page - a very minor inconvenience, and outside the focus of indexing. You did good scrolling to the next images to confirm.
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@AlexHenderson13 Thanks for the heads up!
I had my supervisor teach me how to edit those records, so they are now aligned correctly by family. As we know, people (and computers) make mistakes, so you will undoubtedly find this problem again. Let me know if you'd like a tutorial to use the next time you see one.
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