fisharebest
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8 years ago Issues with more than one item are very difficult to manage.
Missing censuses - I had difficulty finding scans of census images for the older censuses that were of high enough resolution to be readable. If you'd like to contribute these, the format is very simple. You can copy one of the existing ones, such as
https://github.com/fisharebest/webtrees/blob/master/app/Census/CensusOfUnitedStates1850.php
1850 - Names read First-Last,
Name reads first-last. Is this a statement or a question? The examples on wikipedia shows first-name, lastname - e.g. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/1850_census_Lincoln.gif - so I assume this is correct.
Birth Place reads "USA" not State,
Ah. The logic is to show the country - unless the birth country matches the census country, in which case the next level is shown. I guess that you are using the abbreviation USA instead of the name United States, and "USA" doesn't match "United States". I suspect that "Florida, United States" will show as "Florida", but "Florida, USA" will show as USA.
MAR column enters Y for married for all years after 1849? should only be within the year,
The census date is 1 Jun 1850, so I assumed this question to mean the 12 months preceding the census. Are you saying it means simply the same calendar year - i.e. the last 6 months?
does not exceed page.
Sorry - I do not understand what you mean by this.
Could column headers be abbreviated to make it smaller on page?
As you will see from the code that I linked above, each column has both a full title (the exact text from the original census), and a short abbreviation. I tried to retain some of the abbreviations that were used on the old census assistant, where they made sense.
I'm more than happy to accept suggestions for improved column headings, etc.
Shemwell
sleebooth
wkitty42
ddrury
Missing Census years 1790 thru 1840 & 1940.
1850 - Names read First-Last, Birth Place reads "USA" not State, MAR column enters Y for married for all years after 1849? should only be within the year, does not exceed page. 1860 - Names read First-Last, Birth Place reads "USA" not State, MAR column enters Y for married for all years after 1859? should only be within the year, does not exceed page. 1870 - First-Last, Birth Place reads "USA" not State, Enters Y for all FFB & MFB unless no parents entered, month MAR column enters month married for all years after 1869? should only be within the year, does not exceed page. 1880 - First-Last, All Birth Place's read "USA" not State, Census gives tick columns for Married Divorced Widowed, Census Asst. enters nothing, I think a single column with M/D/W entered would be sufficient and easier to read.
1890 - First-Last, all Birth Place's read "USA" not State, missing married/single, missing children born & children living, month MAR column enters month married for all years after 1889? should only be within the year, does not exceed page. 1900 - First-Last, All Birth Place's read "USA" not State, missing married/single, does not exceed page. 1910 - Last-First, All Birth Place's read "USA" not State, missing married/single, exceeds page width. 1920 - Last-First, All Birth Place's read "USA" not State, missing married/single, does not exceed page. 1930 - Last-First, All Birth Place's read "USA" not State, missing married/single, missing Age married, exceeds page width.
State/Country name abbreviations are also missing. Previous Census Asst. showed names as First-Last, some 1.7.3 read L/F, (US census reads L/F). I already have over 400 with F/L and it's easier to read(my preference) otherwise is there a easy method to convert the ones already entered for consistency?. Could column headers be abbreviated to make it smaller on page?. Many columns in census records are left blank, if there's nothing entered could they be omitted?.
Thanks