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From: singhals <singh...@erols.com>
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.methods
Subject: 1940 census search tips to remember later
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 09:17:39 -0700 (PDT)
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I d/l "my" GenWeb county and am indexing it on my own.
I am also helping index "my" state and two others via FamilySearch.  Most 
of the enumerators I've seen have decent handwriting, so that isn't the 
problem.

But I gotta tell you, someone was running a contest to see which enumerator 
could misspell the most given names.  The surnames seem to suffer less and 
the place names hardly at all (although there are a few winners there too).

So, for the future, when the search engines are up and running -- you're 
going to have to get SERIOUSLY creative or rely on surnames and your 
eyeballs.  :(  Because the indexers can only index what the enumerator 
wrote, not what he should have written.

Cheryl

singhals <singh...@erols.com>