{"id":2313,"date":"2016-03-11T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2016-03-11T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T20:13:00","slug":"pretending-you-are-the-census-enumerator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2313","title":{"rendered":"Pretending You Are the Census Enumerator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve thought quite a bit about how the elusive Benjamin Butler would appear in the 1860 census.\u00a0So much that I decided to create a possible 1860 census enumeration for Benjamin as if I were the census enumerator.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/household.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2314\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2314\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/household.jpg\" alt=\"household\" width=\"683\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/household.jpg 683w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/household-300x80.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a>It is a valuable exercise in many ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is about thinking who would be in your ancestor&#8217;s household.<\/li>\n<li>It is thinking about how they would have said their names.<\/li>\n<li>It is about how old they would have said they were and where they would have said they were born.<\/li>\n<li>It is thinking about where your ancestor would have lived at the time of that enumeration.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s not something I do very often, but for a family who is difficult to locate in a census, constructing a probable enumeration for that family may provide some insight into locating their actual entry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve thought quite a bit about how the elusive Benjamin Butler would appear in the 1860 census.\u00a0So much that I decided to create a possible 1860 census enumeration for Benjamin as if I were the census enumerator.\u00a0It is a valuable exercise in many ways: It is about thinking who would be in your ancestor&#8217;s household. [&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":[],"class_list":["post-2313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313","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=2313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}