This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: POWER Classification: Census Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/5R.2ADE/2377 Message Board Post: I am trying to figure out the rationale of the enumerator for the use of Column 12 on the 1860 Census. 'just a guess, but would love a response from any other interested parties: It appears that the enumerator indicated in Column 12 by the name of the head of the household how many persons in the family attended school within the year VERSUS putting a mark by the name of each individual that attended school within the year. Does anyone else see this phenomena and have a theory??? I am looking in particular at Image 26 of 218 for my GGG on line #21 - She is E. Power [incorrectly transcribed as E. Pancer - I have submitted a correction to Ancestry.] There is a "1" in Column 12 to the right of her name which would indicate that she [60 years old] had attended school within the past year. Not that it was an impossibility, but I looked at other families at random for the 218 images, and it does seem that the enumerator is tallying beside the head of household.......for scho! ol attendance or something else. Has anyone else wondered about this? Thank you, Sally in Springville