Hello out there, just wanted to let you know that the next post is up on Family Tree Firsts, over at Family Tree University. Hope you enjoy!I have to tell you that searching the census records was painful. To make it work, and to find every possible person I was looking through I spent about 5 hours reading entire enumeration districts over multiple censuses. However, what I learned was priceless. I got a real feeling for where everyone was located, who their neighbors were, and how the family units formed and moved. It also showed me where other ancestors were at the same times, many of them literally right next door.
This will be a part of my research from now on I have to admit. Before I just trusted the indexer and actually didn't know you could scroll through the images until I learned it in one of my classes. I have a feeling I will be going back through a lot of records!
Of course, why I just didn't go out to google to begin with I will never know...but hey, I got a great story out of it. Just wait!
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