Canada—1921 Federal Census [MQKR-221] Class of Homes
The letters in the drop down list in Class of Homes - some are fairly easy to discern - SD means single family dwelling D would be Duplex so would it be safe to assume A means apartments? Don't let this batch throw you because it's in French, I've already determined that the best solution is to type what you see for occupations and to translate for the English only drop-down lists because clarifications & instructions for this project from FS staff are sadly lacking.
If anyone is interested, I've made an (though incomplete) info sheet to help English speakers get through the drop-down lists for Quebec batches, its a full single page so rather than my taking space here, please email and I'll share.
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I am indexing the 1921 Federal Census and have run into the same problem with some drop down fields being in english and some being in french. To be consistant, I've been typing everything in English.
I suppose I'm wrong but clear instructions are appreciated.
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The problem with typing everything in English is that words for occupations may look similar in English and French but their meanings are quite different
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On this census, where there is just an address written on the page (so no parish or township and municipality are listed) do we use the Province or the city, town, village, township information which is listed at the top of the census page instead? Or do we mark all the parish/township and municipality tabs blank since it is only an address?
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@MillerEileen Sometimes you can find this information on the -1 reference page - take a look at the batch I'm indexing now Canada—1921 Federal Census [MQKR-5MP] to see the township is found in column 4a, in this case it's 24 entered for every person on the page - see the ditto marks. With the municipality, when its an address I type the address ex in an earlier batch I had a whole page of apartments with only the street address so that's what I typed. Out of curiosity I looked up the address on Google and found a picture that may add a little human interest to someone's family history story :) Also you'll see where the census taker made some mistakes & crosses them out — I will type exactly what I see so the researcher can form his/her own conclusions about correct information. Hope this helps 😎
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