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The 1910 census was begun on 15 April 1910. The enumeration was
to be completed within thirty days, or two weeks for communities
with populations of more than five thousand.
The 1910 census schedules record each person’s name and relationship
to the head of household
- Sex
- Color or race
- Age at last birthday
- Marital status; length of present marriage
- If a mother, number
of children and number of living children
- Birthplace and parents’ birthplaces
- If foreign born, year
of immigration and citizenship status
- Language spoken
- Occupation
- Type of industry employed in
- Whether employer, employee, or self-employed
- Number of weeks unemployed
in 1909 if applicable
- Ability to read and write
- If attended daytime school since 1 September
1909
- If home was rented or owned; if owned, whether free or mortgaged
- If
home was a house or a farm
- If a veteran of the Union or Confederate
army or navy
- If blind in both eyes, and if deaf and dumb
- The Indian schedule
also recorded the tribe and/or band
The quality of the microfilming of the 1910 census
seems especially poor
when compared to other census schedules.
Overexposure
in microfilming schedules
for Mississippi, for example, rendered hundreds of pages
illegible. Additionally,
the omission rate in the 1910 Miracode/Soundex appears to be greater
than in most
other indexes. In many
cases, individuals
not indexed are indeed present in the census schedules,
so it is especially
advisable for researchers to continue a search
in the actual schedules
even though a name fails to show up in an index.
The 1910 census, while not providing as much
precise information
as the 1900 census (such as exact birth
month, years married,
and number of children
born to the mother), is still a good tool for
determining approximate
dates and places to search for marriage records, birth and death
records
of children, and
the marriages of children not listed.
The 1910 census sometimes makes it possible to verify family
traditions, identify unknown
family
members,
and link what is
known to
other sources, such as earlier censuses, naturalization records
(especially declarations
of intent to
become
citizens), school
attendance rolls, property holdings,
and employment
and occupational records. These records will also
verify Civil
War service, trace
and document ethnic origins, and locate
military and naval
personnel in hospitals, ships, and stations and those
stationed in the
Philippines, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico.
The information above is an excerpt from
The Source: A
Guidebook of American Genealogy, edited by Loretto
D. Szucs
and Sandra
H. Luebking,
Chapter 5, “Research in Census Records,” by
Loretto D. Szucs
(page 116).
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