Monday, May 30, 2011

Tuesday's Tip - Inputting Data on the 1800 U.S. Census

1800 U.S. Federal Census

The next in the series of inputtable census forms!  This time the 2nd US Federal Census, a.k.a. the 1800 US Federal Census.  Again, I don't have tons of experience using the 1800 census since all of my known ancestors came over around potato-famine-time, or later.  A positive aspect with creating these forms (aside from the obvious, being able to actually input and save your data on a copy of the form) is that it forces me to become a bit more familiar with a resource that I have not really dealt with.  I'm still no where near being an expert, but a bit less of a novice!

Again, I've tried to keep the form as close to the original as possible.  Not entirely easy since the forms still varied slightly by region and by census taker.  Not all forms have the header at the top either, so using this form will at least help to remind you what each column is referring to!

The last column on the census varies from district to district, but refers to the total number of persons enumerated for that household.  For lack of a better term (and lack of a term given on the form) I've titled it simply "Totals".  You won't see this column on all census forms, but occasionally it pops up.

I love the fact the the US Census Bureau had information for the various Federal Censuses, and while they didn't give overwhelming details about the 1800 census on their page, they did give some important details:


So the administration of this census was more centralized under the direction of the Secretary of State as opposed to the 1790 census which was carried out under the direction of the U.S. Marshals of the various judicial districts.

Once again, I've locked the form, so you don't have to worry about inputting data into the header.  You'll only be able to input into the appropriate blank fields.  I'm still a novice with Google Docs (looking forward to Thomas MacEntee's webinar on Legacy Family Tree "Google Forms for Genealogists"  this Wednesday), so if you have any problems downloading the spreadsheet or encounter any other problems with it, please let me know and I'll do my best to fix it. 

When you click on the census in Google Docs to view it, for some odd reason (yet again) it appears to be 3 pages long and in landscape format.  It will be one page and in portrait when you download it.  I have no idea why this happens, I'm just happy that it seems to download correctly!

Next week, I hope to have the 1810 census ready to post, but Cub Scout Day Camp is all next week in the evenings so I'll have to play it by ear.  I may be forced to post somewhat less time-intensive posts!  We'll see!

Military Monday - Central Texas Casualties 2005

Faces of the departed - 2005

Roll Call
SSG George T Alexander
SPC Jeremy O Allmon
SGT Julia Atkins
SGT Christopher Babin
SPC Katrina Bell-Johnson
SPC Bradley Bergeron
CPT Orlando A Bonilla
SSG Stacey Brandon
SPC Adam Noel Brewer
SPC Jimmy D Buie
SPC Taylor J Burk
SPC Adrian J Butler
SFC Kurt Comeaux
2LT Matthew S Coutu
SGT Andrew J Derrick
SPC Michael Evana II
SPC Huey PL Fassbender
SGT Robin V Fell
SPC Aaron M Forbes
SPC Armand Frickey
CPL Steven Gill
SGT Lee M Godbolt
SFC Peter J Hahn
SPC Paul M Heltzel
SPC Robert T Hendrickson
PFC Timothy J Hines Jr
PVT Aaron M Hudson
CW2 Charles S Jones
SSG William F Manuel
SPC Joshua S Marcum
SPC Jeremy McHalffey
PVT Joshua M Morberg
SPC Warren A Murphy
SGT David J Murray
SSG Regilio E nelom
SGT Nicholas J Oliver
SPC Christopher Ramsey
SSG Jonathan E Reed
SSG William T Robbins
SSG Joseph E Rodriguez
SPC Lyle W Rymer II
SPC Lance S Sage
CW4 Richard M Salter
CW2 Isaias E Santos
SPC Bernard L Sembly
SGT Isiah J Sinclair
CPT Christopher J Sullivan
SGT Robert Sweeney III
SPC John O Tollefson
SPC Seth Trahan
SPC Javier Villanueva

 May our Soldiers come home soon.