10 Search Tips for Census Success
Tuesday March 18, 2008
We all have ancestors we would swear were somehow skipped or overlooked by the census taker. It's more than likely that some of them were. More often, however, it's an indexing error that has us running in circles. When online census indexes leave you pulling out your hair in frustration, try these census search tips for locating your 'misplaced' ancestor.
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I can add one more: always look twice for that family or person — especially during times of expansion and pioneering, families often were enumerated twice as they were moving faster than the census takers!