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Institutions - is every Patient a Family, or is the whole institution a Family?

John Shock
John Shock ✭
June 29 in 1950 US Census


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  • AndLinda
    AndLinda mod
    June 29

    @John Shock, thank you for your question about institutions and if the whole institution is a family. Generally, large lists of residents at a hospital or other institution will be reviewed as part of the same household. You will need to examine closely the name and relationship columns (7 and 8) as well as the columns for house number (2) and unit serial number (3) to know what to do.

    Please review the article below for a better understanding of how you need to proceed. Thank you so much for your time and efforts!

    https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/reviewing-institutions-and-hospitals


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  • John Shock
    John Shock ✭
    June 30

    In the case which prompted my initial question, another reviewer had evidently been assigning each person as a Family, and then quit somewhere in the middle of the list of Patients.

    If I get this again, I presume that I should put the remaining patients as one Family, and just accept the fact that the prior Patients were done incorrectly. Or is there another approach to fixing the entire Institution?

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  • AndLinda
    AndLinda mod
    July 1

    @John Shock, correct. The great thing is that those who are searching their ancestors will be able to see the page and also be able to go forward and backward to see all of the documents and have an understanding and see page headers for themselves. Thank you for all that you are doing and for wanting to be exact in your reviewing.

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