On the Hunt

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 CHARLES HUNT, B. 1841

 First Section: Records for Charles Hunt born in Broad Hinton, Wiltshire, England
 Second Section: Records for Charles Hunt born in Titchfield, Hampshire, England
 Third Third: Other random censuses attached.

Census Records:

1841 Job 26, Ann 30, Elizabeth 8, William 5, Charles 2
1851 Job 36, Ann 38, Elizabeth 17, William 15, Charles 11, Edward 8
1861 Charles 21 (Lodger)
1871 Charles 31, Elizabeth 28, George 5, Emily 2, Edward 1
1881 Charles 41, Elizabeth 37, George 15, Emily 12, Edward 11, 
         Job 8, William C. 5, John 3, Fanny E. 2, Charles 3 mo., Elizabeth 3 mo.
1891 Charles 51, Elizabeth 48, Edward 21, William 15, John 13,
         Fanny 12, Charles 10, Elizabeth 10, Arthur 6, Mark 2


1841 William 25, Eliza 25, Charles 2 mo.
1851 William 37, Eliza 40, Charles 10, Harriet 8, Eliza 2
1861 Charles 18 (Boarder)
1871 Charles 30, Eliza 62, Eliza 22, Vincent B. 18
1881 Charles 40, Annie 40, Arthur Chas. 6, Agnes Mary 4, Alfred Geo. 1
1891 Charles 50 (widower), Charles A. 16, Agnes M. 14, Alfred G 11


1861 Charles 20, Ann 25, Henry 1
1871 Charles 29, Emma 35, Emma J. 4
1871 Charles 30, Emma 30, Edith 1

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Does looking at a record, reading it and processing the information not occur to people? Either their reading comprehension stinks or they don't care that they are attaching records that have nothing to do with their ancestor.
According to the profile for this person, the researcher, and I use that term loosely, is looking for the Charles in the second row. Yet they didn't bother finding the correct records. There were no misspellings in the original records. There weren't horrible mistakes in the transcriptions. The correct records were found in a matter of minutes.
Unrelated but this is a pet peeve of mine. Here's a short version of Charles' profile:

charles fletcher hunt
B. thickfield, hampshire, england
D. Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Father:    william charles hunt
Mother:   Eliza Tees
Spouse:   Annie harding
Children:  Charles Arthur Hunt
               mary hunt
               Alfred George Hunt

Is it too OCD to expect people to capitalize names and places? If someone has a physical issue that makes capitalizing difficult or painful, why capitalize some things and not others? "Do or do not. There is no try."

Hat tip to Steph for the heads up about this profile ;-)


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