Posts in April 19, 2019

Sometimes it is a wonder anything gets indexed correctly. Things are easier to read when you know what they are. When I “see” it the first name of the Civil War veteran listed on this coversheet to his pension file is easy to read. But if I were reading it cold. In this case, even the last name of Newman could be transcribed incorrectly. When you are using a “typed-up” index always keep in mind what the typer-upper might have been seeing. And if the typer-upper is a really “quicker typer upper,” the chance of an error is even greater. Check out the books on Michael’s genealogy shelf.