Stray Bones
This blog is to collect the "stray bones" that come my way of both people and their lives (also perhaps some fossils), so they can be remembered and possibly better understood; both in their history and genealogy.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
What's their Name? genealogical searching
A few days ago I was looking for a woman named Barthena/Barthona Carter in AR in the federal census (although on one census she was listed as Parthena). I could not find her anywhere in AR. I checked across the border in south western MO, Barry Co., where one of her adult sons was living. I was using Ancestry's census site and therefore indexes. Nothing, so I started reading every name on the multipage index. Finally, I found a family with the head of household named Carter Barthany. And there were the children, all with the last name of Barthany.
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