Thank you for posting this. You are so right about going through the papers that you have. I have found a LOT of information that has opened up brick walls.
How was the census done in the 1950s? (& earlier) It looks like all that stuff, is the same person’s handwriting. Although it’s nicer than my handwriting. It’s not that great penmanship. Back then, did each head of household have to go into a central location office, and verbally tell the clerk their information?, and whoever it was, wrote it all down.
The enumerators went door to door and asked the questions at each household. Usually one person gave all of the answers for everyone who lived there. The handwriting in the enumerator’s.
@@AmyJohnsonCrow Thanks for that information. As I had said, my handwriting is awful. But I would think that having nice/neat penmanship/handwriting would be a main criteria for being an enumerator, back then. - I’m also curious, of how long ago, did they do that system, with the enumerators? And/or what percentage of the census , was done through enumerators back then? (ex: 1900’s to 1950s) - On some of the forms you showed in this video (& in the other videos I just watched last night) it looks like there’s multiple families on the same sheet of paper. - Was it another departments, job to take the handwriting forms & enter then into some sort of database? (before the computers were invented in the 1950s) I wonder who compiled/cumulated all this information (manually) - I know today they have people that work the census door to door, but they only go to the homes that I guess didn’t fill it out by the deadline date. - I remember when I did my census in 1990, it was a pretty big thick book I had, (I still have it somewhere in a box, it was about 30 pages) and I had filed a whole bunch of questions. I think I had to fill in (oval) my answers in (almost like taking the SATs. - And then in 2000, 2010, & 2020 I only got a really really really short form. - So I’m curious, when was it switch over from from using mainly enumerators, to majority of the of the residents filling out their own census?
I know, I comment A LOT, hopefully I am not a pain. I am STILL SO stuck! I wish you were in my living room with me Amy, having a cup of coffee or tea, to help me. I finally transcribed the censuses I found. I have been focusing on this one ancestor and decided to look at his wife, my great great grandmother. On the 1840 census they are all listed as free whites. 1850 and 1860 censuses has her father with the column "Indian/colored or mulatto" ticked. I also CANNOT find them from 1840-1850. AND I still cannot find my great great grandfather (her husband) birth records. I cannot find marriage records. Also, how do I find out what the extra markings mean on censuses? I am seeing letters with a number, and a line with written stuff under that. I have used information from my great grandmother's death record, yet starting to wonder if I am totally wrong. AND will Social Security provide a copy to me, of my great grandmother's application for a social security number? It looks like one was not applied for until 1966, two years before her death, yet she was born in the U.S. is this weird?
@@AmyJohnsonCrow Yeah that’s right. Now that you said that, I realized that I got those two mixed up. You must’ve knew exactly what I was talking about, when I made that mistake. Dean Martin also changed his name from his birth name.
Thank you, I always learn from your videos!
Excellent research example - very good basic research tips that we sometimes forget in the rush of finding what we think is our ancestor!
Thank you! It’s easy to miss something in the excitement of a possible discovery!
Thank you for posting this.
You are so right about going through the papers that you have. I have found a LOT of information that has opened up brick walls.
Thanks, Amy … your videos are so informative and help me to remember quality research tactics😊
I'm so glad they're helpful!
Did you go to the 1950 census transcription pages and submit the last name correction?
Not yet :-)
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How was the census done in the 1950s? (& earlier) It looks like all that stuff, is the same person’s handwriting. Although it’s nicer than my handwriting. It’s not that great penmanship. Back then, did each head of household have to go into a central location office, and verbally tell the clerk their information?, and whoever it was, wrote it all down.
The enumerators went door to door and asked the questions at each household. Usually one person gave all of the answers for everyone who lived there. The handwriting in the enumerator’s.
@@AmyJohnsonCrow Thanks for that information. As I had said, my handwriting is awful. But I would think that having nice/neat penmanship/handwriting would be a main criteria for being an enumerator, back then.
-
I’m also curious, of how long ago, did they do that system, with the enumerators?
And/or what percentage of the census , was done through enumerators back then? (ex: 1900’s to 1950s)
-
On some of the forms you showed in this video (& in the other videos I just watched last night) it looks like there’s multiple families on the same sheet of paper.
-
Was it another departments, job to take the handwriting forms & enter then into some sort of database? (before the computers were invented in the 1950s) I wonder who compiled/cumulated all this information (manually)
-
I know today they have people that work the census door to door, but they only go to the homes that I guess didn’t fill it out by the deadline date.
-
I remember when I did my census in 1990, it was a pretty big thick book I had, (I still have it somewhere in a box, it was about 30 pages) and I had filed a whole bunch of questions. I think I had to fill in (oval) my answers in (almost like taking the SATs.
-
And then in 2000, 2010, & 2020 I only got a really really really short form.
-
So I’m curious, when was it switch over from from using mainly enumerators, to majority of the of the residents filling out their own census?
I know, I comment A LOT, hopefully I am not a pain. I am STILL SO stuck! I wish you were in my living room with me Amy, having a cup of coffee or tea, to help me. I finally transcribed the censuses I found. I have been focusing on this one ancestor and decided to look at his wife, my great great grandmother. On the 1840 census they are all listed as free whites. 1850 and 1860 censuses has her father with the column "Indian/colored or mulatto" ticked. I also CANNOT find them from 1840-1850. AND I still cannot find my great great grandfather (her husband) birth records. I cannot find marriage records. Also, how do I find out what the extra markings mean on censuses? I am seeing letters with a number, and a line with written stuff under that. I have used information from my great grandmother's death record, yet starting to wonder if I am totally wrong. AND will Social Security provide a copy to me, of my great grandmother's application for a social security number? It looks like one was not applied for until 1966, two years before her death, yet she was born in the U.S. is this weird?
I thought Tony Bennett was from Cleveland, Ohio (or that’s where he grew up? after he’s was born in New York)
No, Tony Bennett was from New York. Maybe you’re thinking of Dean Martin, who was from Steubenville, Ohio (kind of near Cleveland)?
@@AmyJohnsonCrow Yeah that’s right. Now that you said that, I realized that I got those two mixed up.
You must’ve knew exactly what I was talking about, when I made that mistake.
Dean Martin also changed his name from his birth name.