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<\/p>\nI don’t know who gets their database from whom, but the coincidence is strange.<\/p>\n
Both FamilySearch<\/em> and Ancestry.com<\/em> have rendered one of the hundreds in Baltimore County, Maryland as “Misc Run Hundred.” It must have been an odd collection of individuals from a wide variety of locations who simply just did not fit in anywhere else.<\/p>\n That seems like a really odd coincidence that both sites transcribed the name of this location in the same incorrect way. But I suppose that anything is possible.<\/p>\n What I am going to say is that researchers need to consider the possibility that some websites license the use of their indexes to other sites. Researchers may be using different websites and accessing the same index.<\/p>\n Because there is no “Misc” Run Hundred in Baltimore County, Maryland. A look at the actual census image confirmed what I suspected: the actual reference was to Mine River Hundred. Of course, I’m not even going to bother using “Misc Run Hundred” on my citation to this census. Why? Because the index entry lead me to an image of the census page, complete with page numbers. That’s what I need to create my citation to the census page for Thomas Galloway–census year, county, hundred (the smaller political jurisdiction in this case), page number, person of interest and the fact that I accessed the images digitally at FamilySearch <\/i> from National Archives microfilm. Unless the index entry is all<\/strong><\/em> I have, I rarely use the index to create my citation.<\/p>\n Both sites appear to indicate that they created their own index. All I know is what the index entry says and the suggestions At the bottom of this post is the heading from the census page. I’ll let readers draw their own conclusions on whether or not it’s Mine River Hundred of Misc. Run.<\/p>\n Always look at the original.<\/p>\n Always.<\/p>\n Unless you are looking for miscellaneous ancestors. Then you can look in miscellaneous places.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don’t know who gets their database from whom, but the coincidence is strange. Both FamilySearch and Ancestry.com have rendered one of the hundreds in Baltimore County, Maryland as “Misc Run Hundred.” It must have been an odd collection of individuals from a wide variety of locations who simply just did not fit in anywhere else. That […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"1790-fhlcom-misc\"](\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1790-fhlcom-misc.jpg\")
each site give to citing the individual record. Of course, I’m not going to cite their database result. I’m going to cite the image of the census instead of the index entry.<\/p>\n![\"1790heading\"](\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1790heading.jpg\")
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