Census Notes

These notes are kind of rambling on - I will try to get them in some kind of order as I go. I thought a few things were important to relay to the people using these and other census records and/or extractions.

• The census records consisted of three copies 1. the original  2. copy from the original - with less entries than the original.  3. copy from the copy 2 with less entries than that copy.

No one knows where or which one is the original records. SO if you don't find who you are looking for be sure to check any census records you have access to.

I can say from my experience that the census on Micro film, the Heritage Quest census CD's and the census records at the County clerks office are different.

One day I hope to check all with the clerks copy for more people.

•  We are trying to get these records to comply with the rootsweb census project, although we will never have the names entered the way they want them extracted as it would mean redoing the extraction and I am not going to do that nor can I find anyone willing to do it.
• These records will probably never be checked properly as one would have to make copies of the actual records to send to people willing to check them. I do not have the finances to do this so I believe it will not get done.     
• The right side of most of the town census records have to be filled in. I am not going to work on this until cold weather sets in. I have a person who will help with this but there are so many things to contend with it would be hard to convey to someone else. Such as Clayton has a page titled Canada (we all know we didn't take the census in Canada so assume it was Clayton - also the dwelling  and family numbers don't start with number 1. - the dwelling and family numbers are not consistent - they repeat and jump all over the place.   Champion has a page titled Wilna or vice a versa. etc.
• I will try to put here what is odd with each town when I am finished.