Hi Etienne, Ahhhhh, thanks for the explanation. I had not thought of that, though I have seen the same in census records in the USA. So simple a solution. I really appreciate understanding the reason for that odd set of houses. Here are all of my ancestral villages [so far.] And none of them has the 1819 census; all: En deficit. :-( I¹m pretty sure that most of them were communes on their own; so, I expect the censuses are lost. :-( > Harskirchen > Hatten > Ingwiller > Niederroedern > Rittershoffen > Schopperten > Weiterswiller > Wolfskirchen > Thanks for your response and the help, Etienne. Cari On 6/13/11 8:43 AM, "Etienne Herrbach" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Cari, > > the solution to the enigma is simple: the entries 48-58 on the first page are > the last entries of the census of Stützheim, as I have verified it in the > latter village. The censuses of various villages have been bound together, in > alphabetical order. > > For what villages did you get "en deficit"? It might be that those villages > were not a commune on their own, or that the censuses are lost. > > Best regards, > Etienne >> >> Cari wrote: >> >> I was interested in Paul¹s query re: Sundhouse, because so far, NONE of my >> Alsatian locations has an 1819 census posted; all show EN DEFICIT. :-( Does >> EN DEFICIT mean the 1819 censuses for my personal ancestral locations are >> lost forever? ...or what, exactly? >> >> Now, I¹m even more interested in what I notice on the 4 images for >> Sundhouse/Sundhausen: >> IMAGE: Side of image: Numbers in order of enumeration >> Image 1: left page: 48-58 >> Image 1: right page: 1-33 >> Image 2: left page: 34-71 >> Image 2: right page: 72-109 >> Image 3: left page: 110-147 >> Image 3: right page: 148-185 >> Image 4: left page: 186-222 >> Image 4: right page: 223-243 >> >> I understand the last 5 of the six pages, enumerating the residents from 1 >> to 143. HOWEVER, what does that left page of image 1 indicate? I can¹t quite >> figure this out, nor can I understand why the numbers go from 48 to 58? These >> 48-58 are not the same families shown as #48-58 on image 2, left page. The >> only difference I see between the pages of image 1: Headings on left page are >> in French and right (and all other images) are in German. >> >> >