Lyceum Course - Internet Genealogy - No Index Record
- Overcoming a Missing Census Index Record
- These Approaches Can Be Used Using Microfilm Also
- Approach One - Visual Search of All Pages - Can be Exhausting
- Can be simple if person lived in a small known area
- Approach Two
- Needs a sighting in another census year record
- Assumes person of interest doesn't move
- Note the names of the neighbors of the person of interest
- Find at least one of them in the census of interest
- Then visually scan the adjacent records
- It Goes Without Saying that the Record is Worth Finding
© Prepared by Jay February 1, 2012