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TRANSCRIBERS: Terry Bora, Kay Brearton, Austin Fadden, Amy La Pietra, Lynn Grice, Sharon King, Bob McConihe, Earl Smith, 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 used large swirls for the capital letters and they crossed over both the above and below entries at times. Secondly, he could not spell 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. They were not on the film. |
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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 RELATIONSHIPS: There were more than one enumerators for this ward. Some put child instead of daughter or son, others put father and/or mother instead of head of household and wife. Some of the transcribers corrected the enumerators mistakes when obvious, others did not. 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. ADDITIONAL NOTE: In this ward the enumerator put, 'Renns' for Rensselaer County. His Rs and Ps were quite a bit written alike and there are times when it was hard to tell if he meant RENNS or PENN. So, if it says PA for Pennsylvania and you think it is incorrect, check the film. I could well be Rensselaer County and not PA state. DISTRICTS: This ward was not divided into districts, however, the Poor House was at the end of the ward. For the Poor House, in the relationship column, 'resident' was entered and in the occupation column, 'Poor House' was entered. 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 many 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. There were pages and pages of this census where the enumerator did not enter the person's occupation. So, if you find a blank in the occupation column, it could be that the enumerator just did not make the entry and that the person did indeed have an occupation. HANDWRITING: This enumerator made his capital Ks and Rs quite the same and also his Ks and Gs were hard to tell apart, so be aware that names starting with these letters maybe transcribed incorrectly. |
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TABLE HEADINGS: C-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 |
