{"id":2076,"date":"2016-02-08T05:53:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T05:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2016-02-08T05:53:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T05:53:32","slug":"an-1860-census-transcription-from-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2076","title":{"rendered":"An 1860 Census Transcription from 1915"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Civil War pension files can contain a variety of information. The one for William Lake (Co.I, 49th Missouri Infantry) contains a copy of his family&#8217;s 1860 census transcription.<\/p>\n<p>Too bad I had already located them in the 1860 census, but a transcription from 1915 by the Department of Commerce (who used to oversee the census) was still a neat find.<\/p>\n<p>Of course the citation for the census record in the letter isn&#8217;t up to modern genealogical standards, but we will let it slide. There is adequate information there to find the original. If this letter was the only place I could find the census information, I would cite the letter.<\/p>\n<p>And this transcription would be a derivative source for the census enumeration, just like any transcription.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/lake_william_pension-wc958226_pg138.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2077\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2077\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/lake_william_pension-wc958226_pg138.jpg\" alt=\"lake_william_pension-wc958226_pg138\" width=\"700\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/lake_william_pension-wc958226_pg138.jpg 700w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/lake_william_pension-wc958226_pg138-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil War pension files can contain a variety of information. The one for William Lake (Co.I, 49th Missouri Infantry) contains a copy of his family&#8217;s 1860 census transcription. Too bad I had already located them in the 1860 census, but a transcription from 1915 by the Department of Commerce (who used to oversee the census) [&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":[202],"class_list":["post-2076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-william-lake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076","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=2076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}