Hi Lucretia,

Thank you for submitting your correction for the CARRICO surname. Many times 
we find the handwriting to less than desired, making the indexing more 
difficult than we would like !! This can be especially true with the "hump" 
letters. M's, N's, R's, E's and I's can sometimes all look the same.

We started our website by using photocopies of the microfilms. Photocopies 
were only made of the year that we used for our tax list census. Photocopy 
expense was the determining factor. So when a surname was questionable we 
had no other tax list to use for comparison. This applied to the Fairfax 
"1790" census images. And we took our best shot.

Now things have changed since we created our own microfilm scanning system. 
We scan the whole microfilm. We have all the years to use for comparison 
now, for the counties that we have scanned. Fortunately Fairfax is one of 
those scanned microfilms. We have the years 1782-1805. We looked at those 
additional years and found an early 1790's tax list that clearly has CARRICO 
written.

The "1790" Fairfax County index has been updated and uploaded to reflect 
this correction. Our 1790 Master Index has also been corrected but not yet 
uploaded. We have over 30 counties that we haven't indexed yet. Our Family 
History Center is closed for almost 4 weeks at Christmas time and we will 
index as many of these new counties as we can and update and upload the new 
Master Indexes at that time. Your corrections will show up then and the 
search engine will find the CARRICO surname instead of the CANICO surname.

Thank you very much for your submission !!

Steve and Bunny
Binns Genealogy CD Series
http://www.BinnsGenealogy.com/

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lucretia A. Carrico" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 12:49 AM
Subject: Re: VA-ROOTS Digest - 27 Oct 2007 to 29 Oct 2007 (#2007-108)


> Thank you for the Fairfax 1799 tithable lists.? There is a correction I 
> would like to draw to your attention.? There are two men, William Carrico 
> and Abel Carrico, who cannot be found under a search for Carrico.? The 
> search will only show them under the name of Canico.? While the 
> handwriting is not terribly clear, I believe it is obvious this is an 
> error and that the surname of these two gentlemen is Carrico.? If you 
> agree, I hope you can correct the error so that others searching under the 
> name Carrico can find William and Abel.
>
> Thank you for all your hard work.? I look forward to your e-mails and 
> updates.? You are providing such a valuable resource for those of us who 
> are interested in genealogy.
>
> Lucretia Carrico