Re: Spillers Louisiana
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Re: Spillers Louisiana
Victor Spillers II 3/31/10
I have a full ancestry account but could find nothing on Lavenia Spillers other than census information. While censuses are good sources of information,like family stories they need to be verified with some other kind of documentation. Censuses were taken orally until this century and the enumerator may have spelled names wrong, not included some areas because they were too far away, etc. I found some ancestors listed twice on the same census. I have found names were spelled differently from one census year to the next. These are just a couple of examples. The people who have posted trees may have very good documentation and information sources but it just isn't presented on ancestry.com. I do appreciate their posting, though, because it at least provides leads to further my search.