Vanderburgh County, Indiana 1870 Census Volume 1: Armstrong, Center, Knight, Pi

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Vanderburgh County, Indiana 1870 Census.
Volume 1:
Armstrong, Center, German, Knight, Pigeon,
Perry, Scott and Union Townships;
Wards 1 and 2.
Edited by Karin Marie Kirsch.
Transcribed by Barbara Smith Thompson Veazey.
Typed by Pamela R. Gries.
Evansville, IN:
Tri-State Genealogical Society.
2000. 398 pages.
Hardcover.
INVENTORY CLEARANCE.  THIS IS MY LAST COPY
The microfilm roll for the 1870 census was often hard to read because of
the poor quality of the film.
The Fifth Ward was particularly troublesome.
The filming of a number of the townships had been done in a haphazard order, which meant that the pages on the microfilm are often not in the proper numerical order.
Often one has to keep searching to the reel to find the second part of a family.
The original text was “corrected” and marked over before the microfilming was done.
Sometimes the location of countries of origin was made clearer when a country was written in next to a local name.
On occasion even the sex was changed.
Numerous slashes and lines through the text make it hard to recognize the actual age listed, or the actual letters written.
The spelling of names and countries of origin seems to be wonderfully creative.
The individual census takers were not necessarily consistent in their spelling of names, even when the name appears to be the names of the same immediate family.
There is also the challenging inconsistency in the formation of the written letters.
One census taker
uses the same written symbol to indicate the letters F, L, S, and T - but only sometimes.
This book contains the name of the husband, wife and children , age, sex, race, occupation and place of birth.
The 91 page index contains over 13,000 names.
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