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I see the Tracy, Barren County, Kentucky for 1870 was just renamed to Tracy, Kentucky
Which makes it difficult now for someone to know that a category for Tracy exists if they are looking for Barren County. As well this now is a different format then if there was just an ED - so you will have ED4, Barren County, Kentucky and Tracy, Kentucky - and I would think it would be logical to keep them all in the same format with the county.
I'm also in the middle of a one-place study for 4 locations in DeKalb County, Tennessee, so would be nice to be able to create my remaining census categories for all the years from 1920 and earlier.
edited by Linda (Carruth) Peterson
Natalie
Maybe I missed the announcement of what was decided, would it be possible to put an update?
As again I'm seeing tons of profiles updated to just be at the county level, which is going to make working out the households/family pages for an area a bit more of a challenge.
If someone can send me the exact format to create the categories, and the category page(as I still struggle a bit when creating cemeteries).
I can start adding them and putting the people/families in them for that county, as doing this will likely also help me solve a few riddles when trying to fit families together.
I'm wanting to build out the DeKalb county census pages as I work on the families there, as realistically I'm related to likely 25% of the residents. And doing this will help me place families to look at connections and add additional basis for relationship possibility
I just would like someone to send the exact format for the category information that you paste when creating the page, and the exact format for the category name when creating it on the first person for it.
I set up the main county one for DeKalb and for the 1880 Census in DeKalb.https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:DeKalb_County%2C_Tennessee%2C_Census_Records
Natalie
I look forward to this. As it all those rural areas make it hard to put people in towns!
Year: 1850; Census Place: North of Cumberland and East of Caney Fork Rivers, Smith, Tennessee; Roll: M432_896; Page: 223A; Image: 334 Page Year: 1850; Census Place: North of Cumberland and East of Caney Fork Rivers, Smith, Tennessee; Roll: M432_896; Page: 223A; Image: 334 File
Would I set this one up as:
Category:1850 US Census, Smith County, Tennessee, North of Cumberland and East of Caney Fork Rivers or
Category:1850 US Census, Tennessee, North of Cumberland and East of Caney Fork Rivers
edited by Kristina Wheeler
Natalie
Did you ever have any success with your county census project?
Bryan
and working on others as well and expanding them in other places in certain lines.
Starting step 2 in creating a page to them detail them out by household and family number.
So far for the most part my naming has been pretty close, with categorization tram making a few minor corrections as I still struggle a bit on when to add the county or not in them and cemeteries..
If you can offer a different locaton for a sub-project option, please let me know.
Current FSP Project Page - United States Census Transcription Project
Look forward to hearing from you
http://www.softdata.si/wt/Cat/Err_8062New30.htm
"District of Columbia" and "Washington, District of Columbia" are the same entity. "Washington" is not a sub-set of "District of Columbia".
I encountered a problem with the District of Columbia categories. I set one to be deleted (since it was an artificial extra layer to make DC's categories look the same as County-level state categories). I reversed it when I realized that all of DC's records had that extra layer.
My recommendation: Delete the categories created to mimic the state categories - e.g., "1840 United States Federal Census, District of Columbia" - and retain the category that will have people profiles & is formatted like the county-level categories: e.g., "1840 US Census, Washington, District of Columbia".
Maureen Rosenfeld has also created some categories for US Census data. See Category: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Census Wards.
Maryann
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