The Genealogist's Census Pocket Reference by Editors of Family Tree Magazine

Author:Editors of Family Tree Magazine [Dolan, Allison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4403-2147-4
Publisher: F+W Media
Published: 2012-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

1890 QUESTIONNAIRE

• Federal government provided a uniform printed schedule, and the look was dramatically different, moving to a vertical format.

1900 QUESTIONNAIRE

In column 3 (Name)

• Transient guests of a hotel weren’t enumerated at the hotel, unless they were likely otherwise to be omitted from the enumeration; but the proprietor and his family, and those boarders, employees and servants who regularly slept there were to be included.

• Summer boarders at hotels or country houses and persons temporarily residing in foreign lands were enumerated as part of their family at their home or usual place of abode.

• All inmates of hospitals or other institutions were enumerated, and if they had another permanent place of residence, it was to be written in the margin of the schedule on the left-hand side of the page.

• The floating population in vessels, steamboats and houseboats at wharves and piers or river landings was to be enumerated on the morning of June 1, as far as possible, by the enumerators of the districts contiguous to the waterfront, including in the enumeration all persons who claimed to be residents of the United States, even though they had no other home than on board the craft where they were found; but the officers and crew of a foreign ship only temporarily in the harbor were not to be enumerated.

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