{"id":1005,"date":"2007-01-27T22:30:17","date_gmt":"2007-01-28T05:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/27\/the-twenty-six-year-old-baby\/"},"modified":"2016-07-23T12:00:45","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T19:00:45","slug":"the-twenty-six-year-old-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/1005","title":{"rendered":"The Twenty-Six-Year-Old Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While conducting some research on the Saxton family today, I found a record that I couldn&#8217;t resist sharing .\u00a0 I&#8217;ve written before about the baptisms of Ada May Gibson Saxton and her sons, and the record I found today on Ancestry.com is the 1910 US Federal Census Record for the family of Ada May&#8217;s son Willard Olds Saxton.<\/p>\n<p>Willard Olds Saxton was born on 04 Aug 1884 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah .\u00a0 Maryann Jane Thomas was born on 01 Apr 1887 in Mahanoy City, Schuylkill Co., Pennsylvania .\u00a0 The\u00c2\u00a0two\u00c2\u00a0were\u00c2\u00a0married on 28 May 1907 .\u00a0 Their first child, Ada Saxton, was born on 23 Mar 1908 in Salt Lake City and died the same day .\u00a0 Their second child, Myrtle Rosemond Saxton, was born in Salt Lake City on 14 Apr 1910.<\/p>\n<p>The enumerator for the 1910 US Federal Census visited Willard Saxton&#8217;s household on 19 Apr 1910 and followed the instructions to enumerate all those living in the household on 15 Apr 1910 .\u00a0 Myrtle Rosamod Saxton qualified to be included in the 1910 Census by virtue of a single day!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20451\" style=\"width: 645px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/CUS-Saxton-Willard-1910-Detail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20451\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20451\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/CUS-Saxton-Willard-1910-Detail.jpg\" alt=\"US Federal Census Record for the Willard Saxton Family - 1910\" width=\"635\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/CUS-Saxton-Willard-1910-Detail.jpg 635w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/CUS-Saxton-Willard-1910-Detail-300x109.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Federal Census Record for the Willard Saxton Family &#8211; 1910<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The 1910 US Federal Census Records recorded:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Willard Saxton, head of household, male, color white, age 25, married for the first time 3 years earlier<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Mary Ann Saxton, wife, female, color white, age 23, married for the first time 3 years earlier, mother of 2 children, 1 still living<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Baby unnamed Saxton, daughter, female, color white, age 0\/12 [zero twelfths of a year], single<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\">But the\u00c2\u00a0really interesting part of the record\u00c2\u00a0was the information\u00c2\u00a0supplied by Ancestry.com in the census index:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20452\" style=\"width: 336px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/CUS-Saxton-Willard-1910-Ancestry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20452\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20452\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/CUS-Saxton-Willard-1910-Ancestry.jpg\" alt=\"Index to the 1910 US Federal Census on Ancestry.com\" width=\"326\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/CUS-Saxton-Willard-1910-Ancestry.jpg 326w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/CUS-Saxton-Willard-1910-Ancestry-230x300.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Index to the 1910 US Federal Census on Ancestry.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p align=\"left\">The Ancestry.com index lists the age of Baby Saxton Unamed (Myrtle Rosemond Saxton)\u00c2\u00a0as 26 years old!<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Granted, without any additional information, the age of the baby in the original census record is difficult to read .\u00a0 Poor Myrtle probably rolled over in her grave when Ancestry.com listed her age as 26, when she was but a single day old!<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Ancestry.com allows customers to suggest alternate names\u00c2\u00a0in the census indexes, but doesn&#8217;t allow\u00c2\u00a0any other suggestions\u00c2\u00a0regarding the\u00c2\u00a0information in the indexes .\u00a0 Ancestry.com will also not remove any inaccurate\u00c2\u00a0transcriptions from\u00c2\u00a0the indexes .\u00a0 Myrtle will have to remain in the index as being born\u00c2\u00a0fully grown and older than her parents.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">NOTE (23 Jul 2016): Ancestry.com now allows corrections to the estimated birth year of those named in the 1910 census. Her correct age and birth year have been added, although the incorrect age and birth year remain in the index in parentheses.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"left\">Copyright \u00a9 2007 by Stephen J. 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