I was recently doing some genealogical research, and was stuck at my paternal grandmother. Her middle name was Eleanor, but I couldn't find her. When I did - via a 1930 census record that had my paternal grandfather - she was recorded as his spouse with the middle name "Elner." If you say "Eleanor" with a southern accent (this was in south Alabama), you get "Elner," and that's what the census-taker wrote down. In that same record, my dad's middle initial is written as "L" (I saw a Photostat of the record) but whoever digitized that record read it as "C."
Some of those old records have pretty radical misspellings of names, so I'm sure there are errors in addresses also. m -- Marc Carter, PhD Associate Professor of Psychology Chair, Department of Behavioral and Health Sciences College of Arts & Sciences Baker University -- From: Paul C Bernhardt [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 7:27 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Finding yourself This certainly explains a lot of the errors. There can also be data entry errors of addresses. A family member of mine has been chasing down census records and sending them to me. What I find interesting is how many errors are in those records. My grandmother and great grandmother were both named Stella, but that year's census taker recorded them as both as "Estelle". In two cases streets were mistakenly entered, which would misplace their 'dots' on this kind of map. All of this goes to say, that data entry errors in all kinds of records are commonplace from what I can tell. And, I doubt there is much reason to think that there would be many fewer data entry errors nowadays. Paul On Jan 24, 2013, at 7:15 PM, Helweg-Larsen, Marie wrote: This is what the author of the map says about weirdly located dots: Nobody lives in Central Park/Pier 12/County Lockup/Abandoned Themepark. The census reported that someone lived there. This says someone lives in the middle of a lake. The census reported that someone lives in a block which includes a lake, and that's where their dot was randomly placed. Also, some people live in the middle of lakes. Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D. Associate Professor l Department of Psychology Kaufman 168 l Dickinson College Phone 717.245.1562 l Fax 717.245.1971 Office hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 10:30-11:30 http://users.dickinson.edu/~helwegm/index.html From: Claudia Stanny [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 4:59 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Finding yourself I see about half a dozen dots for people who appear to be living in Escambia Bay near my neighborhood. My guess is data entry errors for GPS coordinates. :-) _____________________________________________ Claudia J. Stanny, Ph.D. Director Center for University Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Associate Professor NSF UWF Faculty ADVANCE Scholar School of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences University of West Florida 11000 University Parkway Pensacola, FL 32514 - 5751 Phone: (850) 857-6355 (direct) or 473-7435 (CUTLA) [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> CUTLA Web Site: http://uwf.edu/cutla/ Personal Web Pages: http://uwf.edu/cstanny/website/index.htm On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Christopher Green <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Question. There is a bridge that runs across the extreme western end of Lake Ontario. It's called the Burlington Skyway. (Essentially, it allows people traveling around the western edge of the lake to bypass Hamilton.) On this (otherwise very interesting map), the Burlington Skyway is covered with dots. So far as I know, no one lives on the bridge. Why does it have any dots? Chris --- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ========================= On 2013-01-24, at 3:10 PM, Marc Carter wrote: I live in a rural enough area that I can actually make a pretty good guess at which one of those dots is me -- even without labels. :) That's a very cool map... m -- Marc Carter, PhD Associate Professor of Psychology Chair, Department of Behavioral and Health Sciences College of Arts & Sciences Baker University -- -----Original Message----- From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 2:03 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Finding yourself Not easy. But it can be done (in theory, anyway). Hint: Click on the tab in the upper right, "show labels". 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