{"id":5745,"date":"2016-11-16T09:15:49","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T15:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5745"},"modified":"2016-11-16T09:17:47","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T15:17:47","slug":"take-the-1890-census-you-may-learn-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/16\/take-the-1890-census-you-may-learn-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Take the 1890 Census&#8211;You May Learn Something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 1890 census is essentially destroyed. Only fragments remain.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_20161116_090855.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5746 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_20161116_090855-899x1024.jpg\" alt=\"img_20161116_090855\" width=\"310\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_20161116_090855-899x1024.jpg 899w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_20161116_090855-263x300.jpg 263w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_20161116_090855-768x875.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_20161116_090855-624x711.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a genealogy exercise, pretend you are the census enumerator for your family and &#8220;take their census.&#8221; It may just get you thinking about some things you&#8217;ve never thought before when you fill in each and every blank for those who probably were living in your ancestral household in 1890.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mymcpl.org\/_uploaded_resources\/MGC-1890censusblank.pdf\">blank modernized 1890 US schedule here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While census enumerators didn&#8217;t ask for sources, it might be good to try and locate them when compiling your ancestral census record.<\/p>\n<p>Our\u00a0tongue-in-cheek\u00a0 \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?page_id=3583\">Complete 1890 Census Released!<\/a>\u201d can be found on our\u00a0<em>Rootdig<\/em> blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1890 census is essentially destroyed. Only fragments remain.\u00a0 As a genealogy exercise, pretend you are the census enumerator for your family and &#8220;take their census.&#8221; It may just get you thinking about some things you&#8217;ve never thought before when you fill in each and every blank for those who probably were living in your [&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-5745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5745","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=5745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}