When viewing images of records, do you make certain that pages have not been omitted or left out? Occasionally it happens. Make certain there are not missing page numbers. Sometimes records that do not have page numbers assign sequential numbers to each entry. Make certain that there are no gaps in sequence. And for those records that have neither, make certain there are not significant gaps in time.
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I ran in to this problem when I couldn’t find a family in the 1880 census. They were farmers and were on the same farm in the 1870 census and the 1875 and 1885 state censuses so I knew they had to be there. I browsed through page by page before I finally noticed there was a gap in house visited numbers and a page missing. Apparently it hadn’t been scanned because it is missing in all the sites I’ve checked.
A four page gap in the 1850 census for my Bergmann family. Parents and 2 children were at bottom of one page and 2 other children at top of another page. Of course I found the 2 children and didn’t find the rest of the family for years. My gr-grandmother, Sophia Bergmann was listed as Sophia Beryman in the index and her father Laurence Bergmann was not in the book index. Happened to find him in the index online later at Genealogy.com. Big problem in this census (Louisville KY) cause the page numbers and the family numbers were all in sequence. I thought the 2 Bergmann children were living with a Johnson family and were orphaned or something. At the top of the subsequent page after their parent’s listing was a child with the surname of Long or Leng.