The house/apt number that shows in the indexed box doesn't seem to match what I see on the image.
There is an N and W9 in the first 2 boxes of the indexed fields. It is supposed to be in the apartment and housing number fields, but I'm not seeing anything like that on the image. I just see 208. I'm not sure what to do here.
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@CannonJohnF - I get the feel that the census takers generally didn't abide the rules on house and appartment numbers very well. That box in column 2 was devided into two parts. It is intended that the street number goes in the top and the apartment number goes in the bottom.
My take on this example is that the street number is 553 and the apartment is D.
The simple solution for review is to leave 553 in the house number box and put the D in the apartment number box.
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I'm confused about how to handle the House and Apartment Number item in Family Review. In the census record there is a space for house number but no space for apartment number. In the Family Review screen shot I've attached the computer put 553 D in the House Number spot and w in the Apartment Number spot. Since the previous house numbers on the census sheet are 553 B and 553 C, it appears that these are apartment numbers. So should I delete the 553 D in the House Number spot and replace the w in the Apartment Number spot with 553 D? Or should I leave 553 in the House Number spot and move the D to replace w in the Apartment Number spot? The addition of the Apartment Number spot on Family Review when there is no Apartment Number spot on the census sheet is very confusing. Hopefully someone familiar with how this was set up can answer this.
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Thanks Robert, I'll do it that way.
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Ok, I get it now. I hadn't noticed that the address box is divided in two with the House Number on top and the Apartment Number on the bottom. That explains why there are two boxes in the Family Review to correspond with the top and bottom parts of the House/Apartment box on the census sheet.
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@Robert Givens How does it work when the house number is more of a description... i.e. "1/2 m S&E" or "on right side" or "house in rear"?
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Just type what you find. Many rural areas had no "addresses" - it was part of Rural Delivery for the PO.
This was discussed over in FB and after they told us to put the address information in the best box we could an employee stated - "With this census project, we really want every piece of information on the page to be potentially useful to someone. That said, normally the rule of thumb is index exactly what you see. But clearly the addresses were written lots of different ways. We aren’t changing what the enumerator wrote, just placing it in a more useful field." In other words - put what you see in the best possible box until or unless we are told otherwise.
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@Robert Givens Thank you so much! I would suggest this be added to the FAQ or the field helps. It's tough sometimes to sift through communities and facebook postings to find all of the information.
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Frankly, I cannot see anything useful when someone lived "2 mi S of 1st St, 3rd house on left" 72 years ago especially when people can simply look at the image once they found the people. All these field will slow down completion for years
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Here is the image that I neglected to attach with reference to my question.
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I have found that the computer has a hard time deciphering those two fields when there is cramped writing or sometimes the house number was written in the bottom half of the column where the apartment number should go, so many times you will backspace to delete what is there. (N, W9 in your image)
The house and apartment number are found in column 2 which is not highlighted in your image.
In your example, house number is 427, apartment is Rear. The previous question of what street they live on is 7th Street.
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I came across a page where he enumerator put the house numbers in the apartment number spaces(!). (I checked a map to verify that these were indeed houses.) So I hoping I'm doing the right thing by recording the house number as the house number, where it should have been.
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@DeeMKay - many enumerators did that. Just enter house numbers in the house number field regardless of where the enumerator put it. Streets were often written over in the house/apartment area - same thing put it where it belongs.
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Thank you for your answer. To clarify; in this case, should I add the house number and apt. (rear) even though it is not highlighted?
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@TinaVenturi, yes, please go ahead in these cases and add the house number and apt.
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