The map shown is from Hancock County, Illinois---not Iroquois as indicated at Ancestry.com.
Even the search results indicates that St.Albans Township is in Iroquois County--not Hancock. If any of my searches of this database included Hancock County as a location this result would not appear--because Ancestry.com has tagged this image as being from Iroquois County instead of Hancock County.
It is stated that the map is from 1904. I'm not certain of that. What I am certain of is that this map shows property owned by Samuel Neill which was owned by him from the 1870s/1880s until 1913 when it was purchased by his son.
There are other location errors in this database as well. I love being able to access these images and search them by name, but if I'm looking for common names I need the locations to be tagged correctly or searching is difficult and that negatively impacts my customer experience.
I have mentioned these errors repeatedly and Ancestry.com still refuses to make the correction.
Here's problem number one: I continue to subscribe to Ancestry.com despite these issues. And they know this. Note: I do not have a complimentary Ancestry.com subscription--I purchase it myself. Problem number two is that many people are not aware of these occasional digitization issues and just assume everything is correct.
And as a reminder--these sorts of errors are different from errors in user-submitted trees. I don't blame Ancestry.com for those--any more than I blame a library for what is in books that are on the shelf. It is when there are problems with digital images or search features that I get frustrated--justt like I would get frustrated at a brick and mortar library if materials were not organized in any way that made sense or books were in the wrong order on the shelf.
