When downloading a census page or viewing census on microfilm, look at the page numbers that are written on the page. There might be more than one. View the previous image on the website or the microfilm roll. View the one before that. How many different page numbers are written on the census page/image? An 1810 census entry from Bourbon County, Kentucky indicated three sets of page numbers. One was stamped, one was written in ink (apparently) and another looked like it was written in pencil. And sometimes the page numbers are one every other “page.” ———————————— Check out GenealogyBank’s Offer for Tip of the Day Fans!
Look at that census or tax list? Do the names on the page for your ancestor all begin with the same letter? If so, the collector or census taker tried to sort the names. Good for him. Bad for us as it strips all sense of neighborhood. ———————————— Check out GenealogyBank’s Offer for Tip of the Day Fans!
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