Thanks for the heads up!
I've found that if you're pretty sure a family is in an area and you
can't find them in the census indexes, it behooves you to go page by
page through the actual census. I *knew* my Bruner family was in Knox
county, IL and they just didn't show up in the index. So I got the
film, went through it and sure enough, the enumerators handwriting was
such that the indexer read it as "Brimmer". After I saw the writing and
interpreted what I thought it would be if I didn't know for sure, I
looked "Brimmer" up in the index and sure enough, there it was.
If "not all names were microfilmed" that would probably mean that whole
pages were left out or the bottom of the page wasn't in line with the
camera...
So it may not be an issue where the name wasn't indexed, it may have
just not been readable by the indexer!
Sherry
-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Wenzel [mailto:jwenzel@easttroy.k12.wi.us]
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 5:33 PM
Dear Readers:
I came across a book "The Complete 1860 Federal Census of
Kosciusko Co. Indiana" published in 1988. The inside it
stated that the information was taken from an original census
found in 1988 in the Historical Society basement. They had
found that NOT ALL NAMES WERE MICRO FILMED OR INDEXED. I
found this to be true because I finally found my family. I do
not know if the jail museum library has a copy. I found the
book in the Wisconsin State Historical Library in Madison,
Wis. I know this will help many of you. Jan Wenzel