"Richard A. Pence" <richardpence@pipeline.com> wrote snip > > When you can see only one image at a time on your screen, as is the > case for the on-line census images, it is difficult to get a grasp > of how the pages are numbered. I've been doing some checking in the > 1880 census and here is how I think the number goes. > > Keep in mind these two words: Recto and Verso. A "recto" is a > right-hand page in a book. A "verso" is a left-hand page - the > opposite side of a recto page. > > Some time before the census volumes were microfilmed (in the 1940s?) > each page in each census volume was numbered using a stamp. Only > the recto pages were numbered; the verso pages are the "other side" > of whatever page number the recto is. snip one word missing is FOLIO a FOLIO in archive speak is a single sheet of paper. the recto or front is page one the back or (re) verso is page 2 on my hard disk I have C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\RG13 Downloads\Pontypool Jones Isaac Hewer\RG13_Pc-4944_Fo-79_Pg-28.tif an image RG13 this is the UK 1901 census RG12 is 1891 from the Public record office in Kew Pc-4944 Is a Piece or a package of papers If I get an original census delivered to me, ie in the reading room of the Danish National Archives 1916 and 1921 are not yet filmed, the assistant delivers 3 or 4 inch thick parcels of papers tied with string. I handle them with love and care remembering "NEVER DESTROY AN ORDER" Fo-79 Folio 79 is the seventy nineth sheet of paper in that pile out of (I guess) about 120 or so Pg-28 Page is even so it is the back of Folio 79 I feel priveleged you can believe that but in the end it is only the original documants which count ŽHugh W "Hugh Watkins" <hugh_watkins@net.dialog.dk>