Not True if you go to the library and want to find that particular person and you know that information you will need the roll # and then you can go to that page# instead of scrolling through them all. Russ
From: Paula Ryburn Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 5:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] 1940 census template questions True. I think it is my experience indexing that made me realize that the roll # and page # have nothing at all to do with finding someone in the census images. They don't now (unindexed) and they won't later (indexed). Also, I see that the sheet numbers are unique within the ED, so... It must truly be something to do with the whole microfilm approach. --Paula -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michele Lewis <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, April 29, 2012 3:34:57 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] 1940 census template questions When you are indexing the 1940, you are putting the SHEET number, not the page number. Michele From: Robert Runion [mailto:mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 4:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] 1940 census template questions Not sure if this is pertinent since I have not used the template thus far. However, I have been 'indexing' and the page # is a required entry when I submit my work. Bob On Apr 29, 2012, at 1:17 PM, Paula Ryburn wrote: My question might be slightly off-topic, but here goes... I found my mom in the 1940 census earlier this month and am just now sitting down to enter the event/cite the source. The SW template detail asks for the Roll and the Page. I did not see along my "route" to pulling up the image on Ancestry (select state, county, city, ED) where the Roll or Page are indicated. Is this just a function of the images not yet having been indexed? Or did I miss something? Further, there is a "grayed out" description for what should be entered in the Page number field, but it is cut off....... and of course if I click on the field, the description disappears entirely. These detailed descriptions are not included in the Help (at least the one that pops up when I click Help in that window). What I could see hinted at a number having been stamped on the page?? If you have entered 1940 census data, how did you obtain the Roll #? And is there really a Page # ? I do have the Sheet #....... and that is unique within the ED (at least for Chicago). So where were page #'s assigned and why? (Should I be using the page # that shows up in the top of the ancestry viewer??) Thanks in advance, --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes Hurdle Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Sanford Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
