US, Oklahoma, Pawnee County—School Census, 1897–1968
I am indexing, US, Oklahoma, Pawnee County—School Census, 1897–1968. I have a question about example 3. If there are two children listed. The top child (Loretta White) was born in 1943 and the bottom child (Barabra Jean White) was born in 1922 according to the instructions. How is the census taken in 1924, when the first child was born in 1943?
Thank you in advance,
Faith
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It might be one of two things: Loretta is Barbara's daughter and the school district/census taker/whomever added Loretta to Barbara's record or Loretta is Barbara's younger sister (it happens; my dad is 18 years younger than his oldest sibling). Either way, I wouldn't worry about it. Barbara is the example, not Loretta.
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I am not very good at explaining things, so I'll give it another try @erutherford
I understand the age difference. I know that you have to index both children. My question was, was about the census date being 1924. The first child was born in 1943 and the census date is 1924. I am not sure how you record the date before the last child was born.
1st child on the list- Loretta, dob of 11/7/43 - census date of April 28, 1924. This is the one in question.
2nd child on the list - Barbara Jean, dob of 11/9/22 - census date of April 28, 1924. I get this one because she would be two years +/- a year at the time the census was taken.
How do you record the census date before the last child was born yet?
I may still not be asking the right question or explaining myself correctly.
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To me, it is an error by whoever entered the data in the first place. Too bad the child's age was not entered. Whatever happened, overall, with the exception of the date, it is a good example of how the project should be indexed.
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Hi FaithHamm,
I have just worked on a few of these and I have noticed that sometimes it is very difficult to tell the difference between the number 2 and 5. Could the census date be 1954?
Just a thought.🙂
I did look at example #3 and I believe it is 1954.
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Thank you so very much @erutherford, @Dave Morris6, @LarryClark43. for your help. I also have found myself adding the age to the year of birth to see it could be either 2 or 5 for the third digit but only if they are both present. If not than I put in what I think it is or try to find another number that looks like that one on the page.
Thanks all.
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The 1950 Census has Oswald White (age 35), living in Chase, Rice, Kansas, with his wife, Christeen (24) and their 7 year old daughter, Loretta, who was born in 1943 in Oklahoma. (So I'm going to guess we have the same Loretta since Jennings is in Oklahoma).
Loretta is now a 4th grader - so it would make sense also that the school census should be 1954. Loretta would be a 10 1/2 year old 4th grader.
(11/7/1943 to 4/28/54 is 10 years 5 months and 21 days.)
Barbara Jean was born on 11/9/1952. On 4/28/54, she is 17 months and 19 days old. (Maybe they rounded up to 2 to get an idea of when she would be attending school.)
I think the example is wrong and the red lines over the "5's" in fields 11 and 16 don't help! They do keep us on our toes!
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@Melissa S Himes, Thank you so much for information.
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I let the indexing team know they needed to look at that example. Hopefully they will fix it or change it.
Sam 😊
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