Ancestry likes to say that, for some census years, they have an "Every Name" Index. If they complete such an index for 1910, I wonder if they will repeat that claim for that year.

The reason I wonder, is that... while transcribing street names for Cambridge, MA for 1910 I discovered an interesting situation for ED 742 (T624 Roll 595 Part 2 Page 1A). There is a note attached to the first sheet of that ED (best seen by using the Morse One Step 1910 image finder site rather than Ancestry's direct image since Ancestry cuts the top of the note off) explaining why NONE of that ED's census pages show ANY names of people or street names. If you look at that census those columns are blank. Those people's names are probably not indexed anywhere, even though the REST of their information is shown on the census pages.

If you search on Ancestry... 1910 Census... and leave everything in the name search boxes blank except State: Massachusetts; County: Middlesex; Township: Cambridge..... you will see a bunch of blank "names" for Ward 1......and that particular ED is 742.

So unless Ancestry can magically come up with the names of these missing people they will never have an "every name" index for people who are enumerated on the 1910 Census (and neither will anyone else). Perhaps they will hedge their motto by saying they have an Every name index for all names they were able to transcribe from the census.

Ahhh, the mysteries of the US Census where surprises always wait around the corner .

Joel Weintraub