I agree with Susan and Meli, which is why I tried casting a wider net. Someone came up with a Franklin E. Justice in Union County Ohio in the 1870 census, which I did not find in my nationwide search. Unfortunately I have marked pieces from 1868 and 1873, which suggests its a different guy...
Carl Steen
-----Original Message-----
From: Susan Walter <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Mon, May 24, 2010 2:49 pm
Subject: Re: Potters
Meli's right, the transcribers do make mistakes, but so did the census takers. And if your "informant" at the door giving the information is an uneducated foreign servant, or a child, for instance, the poor census taker often just phonetically did the best he/she could do.
There is another problem I have encountered here in San Diego County; the census never got to parts of it. Our border region is very poorly documented.
I have located names using land use maps, directories, newspaper accounts, school records, etc that never show up, in spite of their residence here for several decades.
Good luck.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Melissa Diamanti" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: Potters
Ancestry.com is very useful, and I use it a lot. But the transcribers didn't always get the names right, so the entry won't come up in a search. In some cases, I ended up leaving through all the pages for my community and period, to find names that should have come up from a search but didn't. And sometimes they just aren't there, or turn up in a neighboring township instead.
Good luck hunting.
Meli Diamanti
--- On Mon, 5/24/10, Carl Steen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Carl Steen <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Potters
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Monday, May 24, 2010, 12:32 PM
Hi all-
Has anyone ever heard of a potter named F.E. Justice? He was in the Edgefield, SC area in 1870. I've tried searching the census via Ancestry.com, but the name never shows up.
thanks
Carl Steen
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