No matter how many indexes exist or how accurate they supposedly are, if you have good reason to believe your person should be in a record, a page by page search may be necessary.
As humans, indexers are fallible.As researchers who occasionally make mistakes as well, we should not expect them to be perfect.
Sometimes there is NO index. My ancestor, Frederick Ertel purchased land in September 1860 in Adams Co., IL. There is no county-wide deed index for that time period. Fortunately, I had found him in the 1870 census in Liberty. A page by page search in the Index to deeds for Liberty Township yielded results after 170+ pages!
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