<div>Harold,</div> <div> </div> <div>I believe the description may be an anomaly, however, I'm wondering if the practice of assigning township names when none is specified on the return by Ancestry is. From reading your article, I suspect it is more common than I previously thought. The 1810 census page with the description can be found at:</div> <div> </div> <div><a href="http://search.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&r=0&dbid=7613&iid=4433425_00081&fn=Michael&ln=Welch&st=r&ssrc=&pid=454008">http://search.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&r=0&dbid=7613&iid=4433425_00081&fn=Michael&ln=Welch&st=r&ssrc=&pid=454008</a></div> <div> </div> <div>The image shows two pages. The description is on the lower portion (page 104, lower right corner). I went back to the image on HeritageQuest and ran through several images for this county. I noted that they had an image mislabeled also. I depend on the image to give me the information I need for the location. If I don't find the information I need, I begin the hunt backwards and forwards to find the location. If I still have problems I access the NARA publication. My surprise may be due to the fact that all my census images up until about January 2006 originally came from NARA microfilm publications. I was in the habit of looking at the images and relying solely on them for my information. I'm behind the curve in noticing this.</div> <div> </div> <div>Rondina</div> <div><br clear="all">________________________<br>Rondina P. Muncy</div> <div>Ancestral Analysis<br>2960 Trail Lake Drive<br>Grapevine, Texas 76051<br>817.481.5902<br><a href="mailto:rondina.muncy@gmail.com">rondina.muncy@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://www.ancestralanalysis.com">www.ancestralanalysis.com</a><br> <br><br></div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 5:38 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hhsh@earthlink.net">hhsh@earthlink.net</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Rondina --<br><br>Is that land description a little-noticed common fact, or a gift of that<br>enumerator (much like the 1850 US census returns for Edgar County, Illinois,<br> which give counties of birth)?<br><br>Not sure this is on point, but I wrote up a botched township assignment in the<br>Ancestry.com rendition of the 1865 Illinois state census for Kane County, in<br>the summer Illinois State Genealogical Society Quarterly. (Now also at<br> <a href="http://www.midwestroots.net/?page_id=729" target="_blank">http://www.midwestroots.net/?page_id=729</a> thanks to the kind permission of the<br>editor.)<br><br>Harold<br><br>><br>> Whilewe are discussing web site images, I would like to bring up something I<br> <div> <div></div> <div class="h5">> caught this week. Michael John Neill writes a newsletter called *Casefile<br>> Clues.* This past week he discussed a census record from 1810. Ancestry.com<br>> clearly labels the record as being from a specific township. If I go over to<br> > the image on HeritageQuest, no such township is cited. *No Twp Listed* I<br>> clicked on the browse feature and the enumerator gave a description of the land<br>> on the first page (which I have never seen before). The land description itself<br> > did not match with the topography of the area, but this is beside the point.<br>> What I was concerned about was the assignment of a fictitious *township* name<br>> based on this description. I'm wondering if anyone else has taken note of such<br> > cases.<br>><br>> Rondina________________________<br>> Rondina P. Muncy<br>> Ancestral Analysis<br>> 2960 Trail Lake Drive<br>> Grapevine, Texas 76051<br>> 817.481.5902<br>> <a href="mailto:rondina.muncy@gmail.com">rondina.muncy@gmail.com</a><br> > <a href="http://www.ancestralanalysis.com/" target="_blank">www.ancestralanalysis.com</a><br><br><br><br></div></div>Harold Henderson<br>Research and Writing from Northwest Indiana<br><a href="mailto:hhsh@earthlink.net">hhsh@earthlink.net</a><br> home office 219/324-2620<br><a href="http://www.midwestroots.net/" target="_blank">http://www.midwestroots.net</a><br><a href="http://midwesternmicrohistory.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://midwesternmicrohistory.blogspot.com</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br>