{"id":1805,"date":"2016-01-10T15:54:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T15:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1805"},"modified":"2016-01-10T15:54:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T15:54:35","slug":"a-new-approach-for-benjamin-butler-in-1860","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1805","title":{"rendered":"A New Approach for Benjamin Butler in 1860"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/benjamin-butler.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1806\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/benjamin-butler-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"benjamin-butler\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/benjamin-butler-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/benjamin-butler.jpg 556w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Readers of this blog are well aware of my difficulties in locating Benjamin Butler in several records, particularly the 1860 census. He&#8217;s been found in others:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1850 in Port Huron, St. Clair, Michigan<\/li>\n<li>1870 in Soap Creek Township, Davis, Iowa<\/li>\n<li>1880 in Drywood, Vernon, Missouri<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1860 remains a mystery.<\/p>\n<p>Searches for Benjamin (using a variety of birth years, birth places, name variants, and location variants) in 1860 census indexes have been unsuccessful and will not be repeated in this post. Manual searches at this point have not been conducted, because there is good chance he was living in either:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>southern Michigan<\/li>\n<li>southern Iowa<\/li>\n<li>the northwestern two-thirds of Missouri<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Or possibly elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Then I remembered that there was one 1860 census I had not searched: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/click-865524-10470501-1449535196000?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ancestry.com%2Fsearch%2Fdb.aspx%3Fdbid%3D1276\">the non-population schedules<\/a>, particularly the agricultural one. Benjamin was not a manufacturer, but was a farmer in 1850 and 1880 and possibly one in 1860 as well. Using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/click-865524-10470501-1449535196000?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ancestry.com%2Fsearch%2Fdb.aspx%3Fdbid%3D1276\">these schedules<\/a> to find Benjamin is a good idea, with the following things kept in mind:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the non-population agricultural census schedules <em>only list the farmer<\/em> and not family members<\/li>\n<li>these schedules <em>do not include age or place of birth<\/em> so I will only be searching by name and location.<\/li>\n<li>Benjamin <em>may not have been a farmer<\/em> in 1860<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have a list of Benjamin Bulters that I&#8217;ve located and eliminated as being mine. Keeping track of these &#8220;not-my-Benjamins,&#8221; along with the perceived reason for not being mine is an integral part of my research process. My hope is that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/click-865524-10470501-1449535196000?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ancestry.com%2Fsearch%2Fdb.aspx%3Fdbid%3D1276\">agricultural census index<\/a> will locate a Benjamin Butler that I have not already seen in the 1860 census enumeration in one of the likely areas where Benjamin lived. I can then use that enumeration (and the specific location for this &#8220;farmer Benjamin&#8221;) to find this Benjamin Butler in the concomitant population schedule. The hope is that there is a Benjamin Butler in the population schedule whose enumeration is difficult to read but that whose agricultural schedule entry is legible.<\/p>\n<p>No guarantees, but worth a try&#8211;as long as I keep the limitations of this approach in the forefront of my mind.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers of this blog are well aware of my difficulties in locating Benjamin Butler in several records, particularly the 1860 census. He&#8217;s been found in others: 1850 in Port Huron, St. Clair, Michigan 1870 in Soap Creek Township, Davis, Iowa 1880 in Drywood, Vernon, Missouri 1860 remains a mystery. Searches for Benjamin (using a variety [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-1805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-benjamin-butler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}