Can anyone find this record?
This record in the Canada 1921 Census is available here on Ancestry
https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/8991/records/7542652
But after MANY iterations of searching the same collection in FS, I cannot find it.
Note: the correct last name of the family is Robertson, but it is indexed as Robinson in the Ancestry collection. I've searched multiple times with both names. I even searched only for the residence of Manitoba with no names and not much comes up. Is the collection in FS not complete?
Thank you.
Answers
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Good morning @KathrynVanWagoner
That page does not appear to have been indexed:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-2QTS-K92C-P1 -
You are absolutely correct that the 1921 census on FS is not complete, but not for the reasons you might think. When an an image says “not indexed” even though it previously was—this is most often caused by rights/permission enforcement, not because the index work was undone or deleted. Restricted records are not searchable.
So why is a large percentage of the 1921 census, restricted, you might ask? Automated checks often re-interpret rules too broadly. This issue has especially affected Canadian collections, and engineering teams are working to better match legal agreements with record metadata. The entire 1921 Census is intended to be accessible to everyone.
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@SerraNola And why I worded my comment very carefully, "does not appear to have been indexed" 😎
FYI @KathrynVanWagoner I located the page by searching for the specific location with no name. Once I had the correct DGS/film, it was easy to navigate/browse to the correct page.1
