What do I do with a record of an institution?
I am doing the "Canada—1921 Federal Census [MQKR-2V7]" and I downloaded a batch that has the records of people in an institution and I'm not sure whether to index it or not. Do I treat it the same as "What to do when records span 2 images" or index each image seperately?
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You might need to get the household identifier fields from the previous image, but that's not at all the same as records spanning multiple images. In a census, each line is a record, and they never span multiple images.
I don't know any French, so I'm not sure what the word in the "relationship to head" column is: something beginning with "pension"? The dictionary offers pensionnaire "guest, resident, pensioner, inmate". Whatever it is, it's definitely not "head", like the shared batch currently has for everyone. Of the options in the drop-down, maybe "boarder" would be the best equivalent? (Or "inmate" or "patient"?)
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Pensionnaire would be resident/inmate since the institution is a school or residence for the deaf. There are likely also records within the institution for professors/teachers or nurses/doctors.
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