1865 New York State Census
   

 
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TRANSCRIBERS:   Terry Bora, Amy La Pietra, Sharon King,  Bob McConihe, Earl Smith, and Pat Connors ***REMEMBER:  This is not a source document.  It is merely an index.  If you think you find an entry of one of your ancestors, remember to go back to the original document to check the accuracy of the entry.  This ward was very difficult to figure out the writing so you will find many ??.  First of all, the enumerator spelled many surnames differently within the same family.  Secondly, he could not spell surnames or given names.   He used many initials for middle names that were hard to tell what they represented.  He also tended to drop off letters at the end of both surnames and given names.  Then, of course, ink smears and such also hindered our transcribing.  The numbering of dwellings and families also was skewed and some of missing.    NOTE:  He made his r's and n's much the same so Farrell could be Fennell or Carroll could be Connell.  He didn't close his a's so they looked like e's.  Some of his initials, such as Ns, Hs, Ws & Ms were hard tell apart.  He added 'ann' to many of the girls first name and did not consider them a middle names.

 

ABBREVIATIONS used:  dgt=daughter, bdr=boarder, svnt=servant, IL=in law, moth=mother, fath=father, neph=nephew, stp=step, adpt=adopted, gr=grand (like gr son= grandson), sis=sister, bro=brother NOTE:  The enumerator wrote 'mother' or 'father' when it was obvious he meant the in law, so you will find, in those cases mother (sic) or father (sic).  For most children, he wrote 'child' for all including grand, step, adopted etc. RELATIONSHIPS:  Sometimes the enumerators got the relationships very wrong and you will find SIC near what was entered.  This means the transcriber recognized the mistake but entered the erroneous relationship.  The enumerator for this census put 'son/daughter in law' a number of times for what was an obvious grand child, note a number of (sic)'s after a relationship to call your attention to what looked wrong. PLACE OF BIRTH:  Instructions to the enumerator was to put county of birth, if born in New York State, put state name only if born out of NYS but within the USA, and put country only if born outside of NYS.  Therefore, Washington=NYS county, WA=state of Washington, DC=Washington DC, Albany=Albany county, NYC=New York County (Manhattan).  Of course, like anything else, at times the enumerator put in a city and/or town.  If he did, we also used it.  Also, at times he put in NY, could be county or state.  DISTRICTS:  This ward had two districts:  10-S and 10-N.  The dividing street was Middleburgh Street.  10-N was North to it and rather small.  10-S was South to it very large in comparison to the North district. ADDITIONAL NOTES:  You will find many ?? in our transcription.  They are there because we were not 100% sure of the entry and we have interpreted them to the best of our ability.  Also, you will find a number of (sic), this means we recognized the enumerator made a mistake but we are transcribing exactly as written.  This happened a number of times with the spellings of surname.  He would spell the first one and then the succeeding ones differently from the first.  While it has been checked against the film of of the census, first by the transcriber and then by the webmaster who put all the pages together, the film was not in the greatest condition plus there were some ink smears and mistakes were probably made, therefore, try many spellings of your surname and only use this as a reference, not a source document.  Always refer to the film or original census for accuracy.  HANDWRITING:  The enumerators made some initials for places of birth that were hard to tell it they were VT, NH or another place.  They also made Ms & Ws that were hard to tell the difference from each other.  Same with H/N and other letters.  He also had difficulty keeping the dwelling and family number in order and had problems spelling occupations, NY counties and names, both first and last.

TABLE HEADINGS:  N-number of children born to women; X-number of times married; S-current marriage status (w-widow, m-married, s-single); N-citizenship of foreign born (NA-naturalized, AL-alien); W-ward; D-dwelling number; F-family number