{"id":9662,"date":"2019-02-19T17:20:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T23:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9662"},"modified":"2019-02-19T17:20:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T23:20:40","slug":"when-you-find-someone-in-the-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/19\/when-you-find-someone-in-the-census\/","title":{"rendered":"When You Find Someone In the Census"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1870-william-newman-prairie-household.jpg\" width=\"996\" height=\"250\" \/>When you find a relative in a census, do at least the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>make certain you are looking at the actual enumeration and not a transcription or an index;<\/li>\n<li>make certain you know what all the headings stand for;<\/li>\n<li>make certain you have the entire entry&#8211;some are split over multiple pages;<\/li>\n<li>know whether the census was taken on one or multiple pages for each entry&#8211;some are both on the left and right hand page;<\/li>\n<li>look at adjacent households for a few pages before and afterwards;<\/li>\n<li>compare the handwriting of other entries to make certain you transcribe as accurately as possible;<\/li>\n<li>make certain you know the census year, state, county, and other political\/address information contained in the enumeration;<\/li>\n<li>make certain you have the page number and indicate where the page number is on the page (upper left, upper right, etc.) and whether it is handwritten or stamped&#8211;this is particularly important if there are multiple page numbers on one page&#8230;not so crucial if there&#8217;s only one page number per page;<\/li>\n<li>have the household and dwelling numbers;<\/li>\n<li>compare the information to other known details about the family to make certain you have the &#8220;right&#8221; people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you find a relative in a census, do at least the following: make certain you are looking at the actual enumeration and not a transcription or an index; make certain you know what all the headings stand for; make certain you have the entire entry&#8211;some are split over multiple pages; know whether the census [&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-9662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9662","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=9662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}