1940 US Census: Guam: Why are families not indexed together
It appears that FamilySearch has not grouped families in the 1940 US Index for Guam. Since it is the normal practice for FamilySearch to group families together in an index, it seems odd that it does do it for the 1940 census. Can anyone explain why the practice is not continued for Guam?
I understand that the index was created in a joint project as part of the 1940 U.S. Census Community Project, but I have looked at the 1940 census index records for other participants (Ancestry, FindMyPast) and see that they show families grouped together in the index.
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Whilst I cannot answer your specific point regarding Guam, I can assure you that it is not necessarily the FamilySearch practice to index families in groups. The census records for England & Wales are indexed on a page-by-page basis, in order for all entries on a specific page to have the same citation reference. If a family group was recorded over two consecutive pages in the original census records, it is often fairly diffficult to find / connect the two parts. This is especially true regarding families with common surnames who lived in a large town / city. Obviously, things must work differently for the main U.S. census records, but Guam appears to suffer the same difficulties as found for England & Wales.
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