The copies that I have were not actual census forms. So I could not tell which column the F and the M were in. And there is nothing at the top of the page to indicate what these columns were. These pages must have been wrote up by somebody who had a copy of the original census or the film. Thank you. Bev. Carman TSTOIKES@aol.com wrote: > According to my census history form the space in 1870 right after place of > birth is a column reading father foreign. The next column reads mother > foriegn. I would assume that instead of putting checks (or in the case of a > transcriber - rather than writing it out) F means father foreign and m means > the mother is foreign born. > terri > > ==== INCLAY Mailing List ==== > Visit the Clay County Indiana InGenWeb site at; > http://www.rootsweb.com/~inclay/