Jackie, I have hundreds of images from Ancestry, quite a few from Heritage,
and even some paper copies from the FHL and NARA. The images from Ancestry,
Heritage and the FHL are duplicates of the NARA films. Sometimes that
transfer to digital wasn't as good as we might want, but it's still the NARA
film. I agree that a person might need to be creative in actually locating
the census image via the Ancestry index. But if you told me I could find a
particular family in a specific county & state, a specific ED and page, why
would I use the Ancestry index to find that family on that census? I don't
even care that the census taker spelled the family's name incorrectly -
you've told me where to find it! What we are sourcing is the census - images
of the original. Making sure to include the repository might make a
difference if you were citing a rare book that might be available in only a
few libraries. Another researcher could save hours of research time for your
having been so kind. That is simply not the case with the US federal census
images.
Elizabeth
researching the descendants of William and Sarah (Patterson) Thompson
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From: "Jackie King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Unfortunately, because some of the images are attached to the wrong names
on the index - and some have cut off tops, it is sometimes impossible to
tell what image you have - and what roll it came from. You aren't certain
that the numbers ancestry is giving you are actually the correct ones.
Hence, I go the extra mile so that someone can indeed find it if they are
using the ancestry index or if the aren't and can't find it - they have a
clue as to why.
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