Looking Into the 1860 U.S. Federal Census Records
There is no such thing as the census. Do you know why?
Many of the relationships genealogists spend hours searching for are missing from the typed or digitized census information.
Worse yet, novice researchers may not know the information existed but was omitted by a typist. So why use a transcribed census?
The original hand-written copies are stunningly beautiful to look at, but nearly impossible to read!
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