Notes on a Census [closed]

Question

I am trying to connect one of my ancestors. Minnie Susan Southern Childress.  [Southern-264]  I found a 1940 census with Minnie, her husband, Harvey, and their son, also Harvey.

Their names have been crossed off of the census, to the left of their names is a note:  "See Schedule 2A, Line 10".  I did upload the census and source it.  Can remove it if need be.

Do they still count on this census?  (Can't imagine not cuz they are on it, even if crossed out.)  I do not know what the notation means nor why they would be crossed out.

Thanks.

Comments

Usually it just means they were put in the wrong place for counting purposes and they've been copied to another section or another book.

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So, the census taker grabbed the wrong form, while in the wrong place and added their name while speaking to them in person for the purposes of taking the census?

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Sorry, that seemed sarcastic, not meant to be.  Just bamboozled. :)

Answer 1

When I find someone counted twice in the same census year, I include both citations in the profile with a note that they were counted twice.  So I would include this source in the census, especially since it might prove useful to others researching the same family.

Comments

I did post both of the census' on the profile.  Figured it could not hurt.  This was my first time for someone to be counted twice.  Was surprised.  Thank you.

Answer 2

Betty, I encountered that once or twice, and it turned out that the family had been counted twice in the same census.  In the one case, it appeared that two different census enumerators got their territories mixed up and had traveled down the same rural road about three weeks apart counting the same people.  It was a little confusing, because the data wasn't exactly the same in both versions, and the families didn't appear in the same order, but it looked as if someone had caught the entries as duplicates.  My suggestion would be search again, and see if you turn up something that looks like data for the same family.

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I am doing that now.  I also visited the National Archives web site and sent them an email asking about the references to Schedule 2A.  I will keep looking.

Census' can be a real pain to the begin with, then something is thrown in to cause more confusion.

I think they planned it.l :)

Thanks!

Answer 3

Harvey A Childress

United States Census, 1940

Name	Harvey A Childress
Event Type	Census
Event Date	1940
Event Place	Tract CCC-1, Richmond, Judicial Township 15, Contra Costa, California, United States
Sex	Male
Age	26
Marital Status	Married
Race (Original)	White
Race	White
Relationship to Head of Household (Original)	Head
Relationship to Head of Household	Head
Birthplace	Texas
Birth Year (Estimated)	1914
Last Place of Residence	Midland, Midland, Texas

Household	Role	Sex	Age	Birthplace
Harvey A Childress	Head	M	26	Texas
Minnie Sue Childress	Wife	F	24	Texas
Harvey Childress	Son	M	4	Texas
Guy W Click	Lodger	M	35	Texas

View the original document. The original may contain more information than was indexed.

United States Census, 1940

District	7-71
Family Number	30
Sheet Number and Letter	2A
Line Number	10
Affiliate Publication Number	T627
Affiliate Film Number	198
Digital Folder Number	005455025
Image Number	00309

Citing this Record

"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K9QD-YD3 : accessed 9 October 2017), Harvey A Childress, Tract CCC-1, Richmond, Judicial Township 15, Contra Costa, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 7-71, sheet 2A, line 10, family 30, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 198.

Comments

If you click on the photo of the original census and page down, you will see that they are all typed out. This seems to confirm them in the 1940 US Census.

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Thank you Frank, you and your magic, at work again.  I am going to look at it now.  You are too kind, love you for it.