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Anne. I contacted
Ancestry.com quite some time ago to see if they could correct this
problem and was advised that they were aware of this problem and were working on it. You
are correct in assuming that Ia was an accepted abbreviation for Indiana at that time.
When the censuses were indexed the indexers incorrectly used the modern postal
abbreviations as a guide. Maybe some day. Don