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January 26, 2016 edited December 27, 2023 in Search
John Williams said: Familysearch is completely missing the census records for the townships of Arkwright, Busti, Carroll, and Charlotte (enumeration districts 73-77) in Chautauqua county, New York. Here is how I discovered this:

I was not able to find a 1900 census record for someone living in Busti, Chautauqua, New York, so I tried looking on ancestry.com instead. Lo and Behold, there it is!

But it's more convenient to link a source from familysearch.com, so I tried to find it there again. Searching for the exact data from the census--nothing. Manually going through the 1900 census images for New York, Chautauqua county, ... Where's Busti?!

So I compared the list of locations on ancestry for Chautauqua county:
http://interactive.ancestry.ca/7602/N...

With the list on familysearch.com:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3...

(click on the Chautauqua link on both pages to see the list of townships or districts)

You will see that familysearch is completely missing the census records for the townships of Arkwright, Busti, Carroll, and Charlotte (enumeration districts 73-77).

I've suspected similar problems in the past, but I was able to definitely confirm that familysearch has a problem this time.

Has anyone else noticed similar problems?
And can anyone fix it?
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  • ThomasScarnati
    ThomasScarnati ✭
    September 12, 2021 edited September 12, 2021

    I have the same problem. The 1920 Census for Brockway, PA is missing, at least in part. If I drill down from 1920/Pennsylvania/Jefferson County/the next is a list of townships but Brockway/Brockwayville borough is not listed. I found it in the Brookville section (the county seat) in Enumeration District 140 but it is incomplete. Of the people I know lived there in 1920, there are no listings for Scarnati, Caruso, Cantafio and many others. I've looked in different townships with no luck. In doing a general search in the 1920 Census I find nothing. What can be done? Who to notify? Is it a quirk? Are they lost?

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    September 13, 2021

    Thomas, Brockway is surrounded by Snyder township. Could the people you're looking for have been living in a place that counted as the township, not the borough?

    There's a Caruso family on sheet 22A of ED 140 (image 43 of 48): https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9RXH-SW4?i=42

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  • Julie Nestor
    Julie Nestor ✭
    February 12, 2022

    This 1910 census page was not indexed, either. This was unfortunate because the wife's father was living with them and not connected in Family Tree until I found the record in Ancestry.com. Are there plans to index these missed census pages?

    1910 U.S. census, Dubuque County, Iowa, population schedule, Dubuque Ward 5, enumeration district (ED) 137, p. 222 (stamped), sheet 18A, dwelling 320, family 353, William Amers [Anners] household; digital images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 12 February 2022); citing NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 402; FHL microfilm 1,374,415.

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