tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post2398866798719692060..comments2024-03-26T11:22:41.940-07:00Comments on Genea-Musings: Finding Martin Carringer's Revolutionary War Rolls on Ancestry.com - Difficult!Randy Seaverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17477703429102065294noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-12042394492935317852013-07-09T21:59:09.970-07:002013-07-09T21:59:09.970-07:00Jennifer,
I used determination and knowledge glea...Jennifer,<br /><br />I used determination and knowledge gleaned before - I checked my Notes in my database, and found that Martin Carringer was a member of Colonel Carnahan's Company in the 8th Pennsylvania Regiment of Foot in the Pennsylvania. I found (finally) the 8th Regiment on this microfilm stream. <br /><br />That's it....prior information that I was lucky enough to be able to find before wasting three hours going page by page hoping i'd be able to recognize the name when it appeared on a page.Randy Seaverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17477703429102065294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-45116066723388093222013-07-09T20:13:57.187-07:002013-07-09T20:13:57.187-07:00So glad to come across your post and know I'm ...So glad to come across your post and know I'm not the only one having a problem! So you said you finally found it on page 283/4. How did you finally come to those pages? I've been looking and looking through my document with no luck yet...please help elaborate on how you found it! Thanks!!Jennifer Leiblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14366022438278494848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-29280807647403320262013-04-12T22:49:58.964-07:002013-04-12T22:49:58.964-07:00Mariann Regan said:
You could call Ancestry and te...Mariann Regan said:<br />You could call Ancestry and tell them. I bet they'd like to know what's not working.<br /><br />Ha! What a hoot!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-81544348499165706132013-04-11T17:15:33.569-07:002013-04-11T17:15:33.569-07:00Ancestry.com has been deleting a lot of stuff from...Ancestry.com has been deleting a lot of stuff from citations. I have not been able to detect a pattern. They also have been revamping some indexes and extracts from relatively accurate to absolutely wrong in some cases.<br /><br />In the case of the Revolutionary War Rolls, they had the name index very early in their corporate internet installation, long before they had the microfilm images. Thus there was no indexing project that would have linked names to actual uploaded images. Every online index link to this group is to the first image that was uploaded from each microfilm roll, no matter what it was.<br /><br />In this record group there are image sections and individual images that are not indexed at all.<br /><br />At the beginning of each roll is a summary of what is on each of the rolls, plus a list of what is on the particular microfilm roll. This can be tedious to page through, but can give a rough idea of where in the images one could best start browsing: the Jacket [file] Numbers are given here, and are in the microfilm images at the beginning of each Jacket, although not included in the index.<br /><br />A general list of what is on each microfilm roll (not broken down by Jackets) has most generously been provided by John K. Robertson and Bob McDonald:<br />http://www.revwar75.com/ob/m246.htmGeoloverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12050268303916428230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-58521730176441339852013-04-11T15:18:08.879-07:002013-04-11T15:18:08.879-07:00You can also use the 'report a problem' fe...You can also use the 'report a problem' feature, which I hope you did. Just yesterday, I came across a city directory from 1892 which was mistakenly referenced as 1829, which I reported. They seem to be good at making corrections, and users reporting problems is an important part of the databases continuing to get better.Dan Stonenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-34143397234759876592013-04-11T15:07:07.205-07:002013-04-11T15:07:07.205-07:00Very good questions! (Plus a lot of exhausting wor...Very good questions! (Plus a lot of exhausting work.) You could call Ancestry and tell them. I bet they'd like to know what's not working. Mariann Reganhttp://mariannsregan.comnoreply@blogger.com