cmccartney 0 Report post Posted August 30, 2008 Those of you, like me, that that use something like the Betty Frain method, you have many roles for census tags. I have always wondered if there was a "complete' list of the relationships used so that I could expand my tags to include "all possible" roles. Recently, I volunteered to index for the Family Search Labs project and found that their software had a drop-down box for entering the relationship when indexing census forms. I extracted the list and it is presented below. I find it interesting that several of the relationships seem more like occupations. Does anyone have any observations on this? Anyway, here is the list, perhaps you will find it intersting if not useful. Craig ----------- Adopted Adopted Child Adopted Daughter Adopted Grandchild Adopted Mother Adopted Son Apprentice Assistant Attendant Aunt Aunt-In-Law Bartender Boarder Bound Boy Bound Girl Boy Brother Brother-In-Law Butler Captain Chamber Maid Child Companion Cook Cousin Cousin-In-Law Daughter Daughter-In-Law Day Laborer Dishwasher Domestic Employee Engineer Farm Hand Farm Laborer Farm Worker Father Father-In-Law Fireman First Cousin Foster Brother Foster Father Foster Mother Foster Sister Foster Son Friend God Child Governess Grand Or Great Nephew Grand Or Great Niece Grandchild Granddaughter Grandfather Grandpa Grandmother Grandma Grandmother-In-Law Grandson Grandson-In-Law Great-Aunt Great-Grandfather Great-Grandmother Great-Great-Grandfather Great-Great-Grandmother Great-Uncle Guardian Guest Half Brother Half Brother-In-Law Half Sister Half Sister-In-Law Head Help Herder Hired Girl Hired Hand Hired Man Hireling Housekeeper Housemaid Houseworker Husband Inmate Laborer Launderer Lieutenant Lodger Maid Manager Matron Mother Mother-In-Law Nephew Nephew-In-Law Niece Niece-In-Law Nurse Officer Partner Patient Porter Principal Prisoner Pupil Relative Roomer Sailor Sergeant Servant Servants Child Sister Sister-In-Law Son Son-In-Law Step Granddaughter Step Grandson Stepbrother Stepbrother-In-Law Stepchild Stepdaughter Stepdaughter-In-Law Stepfather Stepfather-In-Law Stepmother Stepmother-In-Law Stepsister Stepsister-In-Law Stepson Stepson-In-Law Superintendent Tenant Uncle Uncle-In-Law Visitor Waiter Waitress Ward Warden Wife Workman Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Michael Dietz Report post Posted August 30, 2008 One of my wife's great...uncles was the sheriff of a small town in Ohio in the 1850 census. I found him, his wife (assumed), and four children (assumed), plus a young lady with the family who's occupation was prisoner. Apparantly the town did not have a coed jail and so the young lady was incarcerated with the sheriff's family. I wonder if her relationship would have been prisoner in your list since she was not a boarder or housekeeper? Mike Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Roy Sprunger 0 Report post Posted December 31, 2009 (edited) deleted duplicate post Edited December 31, 2009 by anetsprungen Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Roy Sprunger 0 Report post Posted December 31, 2009 Craig, Thanks for posting the list. I found it very interesting. But to answer your request, I believe the words that appear to be occupations may in fact be adjectives, adverbs & verbs used to modify the principle, e.g. the 'farm laborer' has a relationship to the principle as a "farm laborer". It appears to be all on how you view the context of usage. Although, I have never heard of a 'cousin-in-law'. Some do seem odd in the context of current usage, but they are probably archaic & were common 150-300 years ago, such as 'Bound Boy'. Any other thoughts out there? Roy Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
