Ok, is it just me or is there no way to search by location?
I am searching for someone I know is in the census, just to "prove" that I can find him at Family Search's site for the 1870 United States Census. The problem is that the last name is so messed up on the census that I cannot find him when searching for his last name. There are too many Johns born in 1859 or so living in 1870 to make that a practical search without a location entered in or chosen to narrow it down. Is there something about searching at Family Search that I am missing for the 1870 census?
The person I am searching for is John Habben, born ca. 1859 in Germany. He is in Adams County, Illinois, in 1870 as I've found the entry before in the census. I just wanted to prove I could do it at FamilySearch as well and I'm having difficulty.
Loving a challenge & a puzzle, I did a search for "John", on the site. Of course, this returned 4700 matches. I then chose the Narrow by "Place" and chose Illinois - 152 results. Then I chose collection (since you said he was in the 1870 census for sure I chose that one - 59 results. Easily scanned for a German birth place (assuming they got that correct). Then I chose narrow by date, choosing 1850-59 AND 1860-69, this returned - 35 results for John's born in that timeframe. 35 isn't too hateful to troll through, however I see no German births. Since you said his name was messed up, I'd be interested to see if any of the ones returned were actually the correct John - this was a great exercise to see if the results would show the record that you already know should be there. So, what last name was listed???
ReplyDeleteI must be doing something incorrect because no matter how I do it, I do not get the option to search by residence.
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