[Ldsoss] Alternate way of searching genealogy...

[Jay Askren]

Yeah, that could be useful.  Anyhow enjoy the data.

On 8/20/07, Russell Hltn <russellhltn at gmail.com> wrote:
> True.  But by using coordinates, one can then check for who was in the
> same area on the next census.  Page count only helps in comparing that
> one census.
>
> Besides, at some point there has to be two different people who are
> very close to each other, but ended up being interviewed by different
> census takers and so are many pages apart.
>
> On 8/20/07, Jay Askren <jay.askren at gmail.com> wrote:
> > For this application, as was stated, it's probably not vital to know
> > the exact latitude, longitude, since distance in pages in the census
> > should be good enough.  Because of the way the census is taken, two
> > families on the same page or on consecutive pages and in the same
> > township are close together.
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