tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1278040407553311265.post7226191025517249111..comments2024-03-08T21:25:42.479-05:00Comments on Scrapping My Family History: Mary Had a Little ... ChildElizabeth Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17336433153224503207noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1278040407553311265.post-87207543151644298442016-07-17T22:06:22.572-04:002016-07-17T22:06:22.572-04:00Pull your hair out census research! It really shar...Pull your hair out census research! It really sharpens your skills at research.<br />Today I was trying to find my husband's family in the 1940 census, they were living in Brooklyn at the time. His father is Manuel, his mother, Aurora, he is Raymond and his sister is ALice, surname DelValle. Well I used every seach trick I could think of and none of them showed any results, I even pushed the slide to just show the first names of each in Brooklyn, for the appropriate years. Well, I ended up doing a page by page (thank goodness for the digital maps on Ancestry, I found them at the address they were living at when I first met my husband. Manuel was Mamal, Aurora was Amora, Raymond was Ramond, ALice wasn't even in the index but she was on the page; and Del Valle was de Velle. Not one of my look up tricks would have worked to find them. The first name errors were all transcription errors but the surname was the enumerator's error. Without the map locators I would not have even attempted to find them in Brooklyn, But I now know that none of the other children born before 1940 did not survive for very long.<br /><br />Have fun with your research, I'm enjoying reading your helpful hintsElizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12520979696741425367noreply@blogger.com