I can find my relatives on this image of the 1930 US Census (http://search.ancestry.com/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=6224&pa...), but cannot find them in the same census by doing a records search. The individuals are Clarence Elliott and family (actually the name is ELLETT). I tried searching for Clarence Elliott, ELLETT, and ELLIOLL. I tried the same searches for each family member. Nothing.

Is there a way to go from an image to the records?

Thanks!

Just search for Ola M with no last name in the right state, county, town, etc. Once you pull up her record you can click on the others.

And don't forget to add a correction. :)

Indexed as Clarence Edleoll

I still couldn't get to it from an Ola M search, but BobNY had it right on the money! And I did submit a correction.

Thanks to you both for your prompt help!

That's odd. In the 1930 census I put in Ola M, no surname, Alabama > Madison > West Huntsville. It was, and still is, the first hit on the list. I don't know why you didn't find it. Are you using new search or old search?

I've got one, too, that I can't figure out what the index might say. It's the 1830 Census, Franklin County, Virginia, page 63, line 15 John Kid

http://tinyurl.com/kv98wt

I tried searching just John but there are a million of them.

Any ideas?

John Wd

Wow--you're a miracle worker! (And I did submit the correction.)

lol, no, I just quickly skimmed the John's with no surnames. I knew it had to be a name with only a couple of letters so it was easy to skim them real fast. I thought it might be an H or R then spotted the Wd. It doesn't look like a W to me but it sure doesn't look like the other Ks on the page, either.