There’s more to analyzing a census entry than trying to figure out the relationship among\u00a0the various household\u00a0members. Several additional\u00a0things should be considered–depending up on the census year and what details are actually provided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How much geographic specificity\u00a0does the entry provide? Is it just the county? Is it a general\u00a0region of the\u00a0 county or a more precise one? Is there an address given? Is it possible to determine from the names of neighbors where in the county the individuals likely lived?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How does the family’s likely structure compare to that of neighbors? How do the places of birth for members of the household compare to that of neighbors? Does the family appear\u00a0to have recently moved into the area? What about their neighbors? How similar are the family’s occupation(s) to that of neighbors? How does their home ownership, property values,\u00a0 and other economic pieces of information compare to their neighbors?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unfortunately many of these questions cannot be answered from censuses 1840 and before.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There’s more to analyzing a census entry than trying to figure out the relationship among\u00a0the various household\u00a0members. Several additional\u00a0things should be considered–depending up on the census year and what details are actually provided. How much geographic specificity\u00a0does the entry provide? Is it just the county? Is it a general\u00a0region of the\u00a0 county or a more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36163","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\/153979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}