Re: Odd problem with LDS CD set for 1881 census

In article <435ce359$0$5952$afc38c87@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, tim sewell
<postmantim2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>I have had the 1881 census CDs installed on my computer for nearly a year,
>and have not come across this problem before.
>
>I have been searching for possible records of my grandfather-in-law Kenneth
>MacDonald. After some preliminary work I searched the National Index for
>"Kenneth MacDonald, born Durham 1869 exactly, census region -<all>. That
>returns an encouraging "MACDONALD, Kenneth Son, <1869> Durh Suth".
>(1868 or 1869 comes from his quoted age when he married in 1891).
>
>However, when I clicked on that entry, I got an error message thus :
> Query "[Group H26237][Group GKENNETH][Group SMCDONALD]
> [Field LDAT:1869][Group BDurh][Group CSuth]" generated no hits.
>Very odd, when I had to click on one such hit to generate that message!

Is this a product of the geographically challenged indexer who
'translated' all entries saying 'Sunderland' in Durham, to 'Sutherland'
in North Scotland? If you go for 'Sunderland' you should find him,
eventually.


--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society
.

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