{"id":13133,"date":"2021-03-11T07:21:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T13:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=13133"},"modified":"2021-03-11T07:21:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T13:21:07","slug":"us-census-handwritten-forms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/us-census-handwritten-forms\/","title":{"rendered":"US Census Handwritten Forms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The US censuses of 1790, 1800, 1810, and 1820 were written on forms that were handwritten by the census takers themselves. It was not until the 1830 census that pre-printed forms were used. That is why census records in the US for 1820 and before vary in layout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/history\/www\/through_the_decades\/questionnaires\/\">history of US census questionnaires on the census.gov website<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US censuses of 1790, 1800, 1810, and 1820 were written on forms that were handwritten by the census takers themselves. It was not until the 1830 census that pre-printed forms were used. That is why census records in the US for 1820 and before vary in layout. There is more about the history of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}