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From: Sue Renkert <>
Subject: [MD-CENSUS-LOOKUP] Questions asked by Census Enumerators
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 09:38:04 -0900
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Ancestry.com has free downloadable forms for each census year. These not
only tell which questions were asked, but they help th identify the various
columns when online census pages are not easy to read.

I have always assumed that the 1 or 2 was for the 1st or 2nd marriage, and
this has been confirmed as true in each case in my own research.

Sue
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Subject: [MD-CENSUS-LOOKUP] Questions asked by Census Enumerators


> Until a recent computer problem, I had a web site that listed the
questions
> to be asked by the census takers for each census year. Does anyone have
the
> url for this web site?
>
> I've noticed in the 1910 census that the enumerator would write a number,
> usually a 1 or 2 after the M in the marital status box. I assume this
meanswhich
> marriage this was for that individual. Could someone enligten me? If
that's
> true, I just discovered that my grandmother's father had been married
before
> his marriage to her mother. No one in the family has mentioned that
fact.

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