When I source a census, in addition to the location I include the
district number, page number, and line number, so anyone should be able
to get to it no matter how the name was spelled.
If the census information is from Ancestry.com, you can make it possible
for others to find the information using the proper name. Ancestry
allows you to submit corrections or changes to their data, whether the
census taker wrote it down wrong or the indexer read it wrong or the
person was generally known by a different name. After Ancestry has
processed your change, people will be able to locate the information
using the name that you have provided.
Karl Plenge wrote:
I am wondering what you all do as far as citing the source when you
run across someone who is improperly indexed in the census. Do you
record them in the source with their accurate name, their indexed name
from the census, or with notes explaining both?
My inclination is to use their correct name, but if you do that and
someone else uses your source to try to find them, they won't because
they're under a different name.
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