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Jim Rassette

1850 and 1860 Census Slave Schedules

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Does anyone have examples or suggestions about creating event tags for the 1850 and 1860 Census Slave Schedules? I have seen and like Terry Reigel's examples for source documentation but have found nothing concerning the event tags.

 

I would like to manage all the slave information found on these schedules in a way that I may be able to trace the slaves individually.

 

Thanks,

 

Jim Rassette

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I use a custom census tag type such as Census185S,

 

The Principal sentence is:

[P] appeared on the U.S. census (slave schedule) as the owner of
The Witness sentence is:
[W] was enumerated as a slave in the household of [P] in the [D] U.S. census
And a memo example would be:
enumerated 3 Dec 1850||5 slaves (M/45, M/35, M/10, F/20, F/2)
That doesn't exactly accomplish what you wanted to do.

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Thanks Jim and Virginia for your suggestions. I'm still experimenting with different tags to do what I need. If you are adding slaves as people in your database to track events in their lives, how do you identify (name) the slaves listed in these or earlier censuses before you find documentation that gives them a name. What naming convention would you use, or, would you leave the names blank with only a record number to hold the place?

 

Jim.

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I don't actually do this; however, if I did... I don't leave the name blank for anyone so I would devise a placeholder naming system until a real name can be determined.

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