Does It Exist?

It is easy to search without looking to see if the record even exists.

Ancestry.com “let” me search the 1810 census for a man who should have been living in Ohio. Problem is that most of the 1810 census for Ohio was destroyed in the War of 1812. If I never get past the search box, I don’t realize that.

Are you making certain it really exists before you click “search?”