Missing 1900 North Dakota, US, census

Question

I found a record for Anton Ludwig Berg in the 1900 census in Grand Forks, North Dakota, US. However, when I try to see the actual page, I get this from FS:

"This Record has been removed", etc.

I cannot cite this record either. (No citation to copy)

Has anyone seen anything like this before? Why would this happen?

Answer 1

I don't know why it's doing that. I saw it also. But, here's the record for his brother, which does let me view the original document: "United States Census, 1900", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9VN-NB7 : 17 December 2021), Jacob Berg in entry for Christina Berg, 1900.

Sometimes these problems resolve themselves by the next day.

Comments

This is excellent! Thanks for the link, Jamie. This helps immensely! Tracking Christina (the mom) will be easier now.

Interesting that Anton (who would have been five years old) was not also in the census record. 

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Recently I encountered a Family Search census record in which one family member was not indexed. I guessed that he had been removed from the index because his first name was clearly visible, but could not be discerned as a sequence of recognizable letters, much less a name.

Answer 2

It's interesting that you bring this up.  I used to see "This record has been removed" occasionally, particularly with the 1870 US census.  My vague impression was that there may have been errors in the data identifying the record in the search list - like unrelated people were lumped together as if they were in the same household.  However, lately, I have not been running into "This record has been removed", etc.

Answer 3

I just saw something similar on the 1900 census record for Joseph Hamlin, where it took him (head of household) and put his data on both daughters and the laborer in the household.

But wait, it gets worse... I tried to report this by using the edit option, highlighting the original image. But I only changed the elder daughter's name and now Luella is the head of household with her father's data and she has overwritten everyone else in the household. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hamlin-2606

In the meantime, Luella is using the Ancestry 1900 census.

What a mess!