Tomorrow: Wednesday, December 2, 2015
French Canadian Genealogy SIG Meeting:
9:00 AM in the Julio Iglesias Room at the La Hacienda Recreation Center
Read the Directions:
Judy G. Russell
What the enumerators were told...
What’s an “inmate” on a United States census return?
Who was listed as the “head of household”?
What was a “housekeeper”?
And why in the world isn’t the however-many-great-grandaunt born in May listed on the 1910 census?
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Mapping the Census:
Judy G. Russell
"Reader Maureen was delighted with the Census Bureau publication that set out the directions to the census takers in each U.S. census from 1790 through 2000 that was featured in the above blog post.
"I downloaded it immediately,” she said. “I love researching family in the censuses but am always aware that there is an enumerator who ‘translates’ and records the information the family provides.”
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Download - Measuring America: The Decennial Censuses From 1790-2000
What Two Tea Parties From The Past Can Tell Us About 19th-Century Domesticity:
Jastor Daily
"Construction workers recently uncovered two 200-year-old crypts in Greenwich Village—a reminder that New York City’s modern facade can be peeled away to reveal a rich history. The archaeological remains of Greenwich Village also reveal realities about women and domesticity in the 19th century, writes Diana Di Zerega Wall. She compares ceramics found in two Village backyards in homes that were on the upper and lower spectrums of the middle-class during the 1850s and 1860s—two virtual tea parties, so to speak."
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Donations Save Iconic American Ship From The Scrapyard:
Fox News
"The SS United States Conservancy announced Tuesday that it has received more than $600,000 in donations to keep the ship from being sold for scrap metal, after the nonprofit revealed in early October that it was running out of funding to maintain it and was exploring its sale."
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This Day In History: December 1
1861: The U.S. gunboat Penguin seizes the Confederate blockade runner Albion carrying supplies worth almost $100,000.
1881: Virgil, Wyatt and Morgan Earp are exonerated in court for their action in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Ariz.
1941: The first Civil Air Patrol is organized in the United States.
1935 Birthday: Woody Allen [Allen Stewart Konigsberg], American actor, writer and director (Annie Hall).
