census surfing
Gah! I looked at over 500 census pages online today. Sometimes you just have to break down and search for people. Indexes are only as good as the handwriting of the enumerator and the person transcribing, and I've seen some mangled doozies in the way of LH character names.

The bad news is that I didn't find what I was looking for. The good news is that census surfing and sock knitting go quite well together. I started and finished a whole sock while sitting at the computer: click, knit, view, click, knit, view. Repeat ad nauseum.
- posted by pioneergirl at 1:55 AM