Posts in December 13, 2020

A person of interest was found in an 1850 census enumeration. The difficulty is that the enumeration for the county contains no geographic subdivisions other than county. To somewhat narrow down the part of the county in which the person of interest lived, I’ve chosen a few heads of household on the same (and previous and subsequent pages) who have real property values listed in an attempt to find what part of the county they lived in. If they’re in the same portion of the county, then that’s probably where the person of interest lived at the time of the enumeration since the census taker likely listed the names in the order in which they were actually visited. My analysis of why I think he lived where he […]