This is a shortened version of these two census reports, showing just the additions or changes to previous years. 1900 Census: ON THE FIRST DAY OF JUNE, 1900 Write "W" for white; "B" for black (negro or of negro descent); "Ch" for Chinese; "JP" for Japanese, and "In" for Indian, as the case may be. Year of immigration to the United States.-If the person is a native of the United States, leave the column blank. If he was born abroad, enter the year in which he arrived in the United States. Number of years in the United States.-If the person is a native of the United States, leave the column blank. If he was born abroad, enter the number of years since his arrival in the United States. Disregard all fractions of a year. If the time is less than one year, write "O." Endeavor to get the exact number of years in all cases. The question of immigration applies to all foreign-born persons, male and female, of whatever age. If does not apply to persons born in the United States. Naturalization.-If the persons is a native of the United States, leave the column blank. If he was born abroad, and has taken no steps toward becoming an American citizen, write "Al" (for alien). If he has declared his intention to become an American citizen and taken out his "first" papers, write "Pa" (for papers). If he has become a full citizen by taking out second or final papers of naturalization, write "Na" (for naturalized). The question of naturalization applies only to foreign-born males 21 years of age and over. It does not apply to foreign-born minors, to foreign-born females, or to any person, male or female, who was born in the United States, either of native or foreign parentage. Ownership of Home If the home is owned, write "O." If it is rented, write "R." If it is owned and mortgaged, write "M." If it is owned free from mortgage incumbrance, write "F." If the home is a farm, write "F." If it is only a house, write "H." If the home is only a house, leave the column blank. If the home is a farm, write the number of its farm schedule; that is, the farm number as reported on Schedule No. 2, relating to agriculture. Enter the number of each farm schedule on the line for the member of the family by whom the farm is operated. In case a family resides in a tent or boat, write in column 27 the word "tent" or "boat." If a family cultivates a farm, but resides in a house detached from the farm, in a village or elsewhere, the farm and the house must jointly be considered the family home and that home a farm, unless the chief occupation of the person operating the farm is something other than farming. In the latter case, the house alone is to be regarded as the home. 1910 Census: SUBDIVISIONS OF DISTRICTS 74. Separate enumeration of subdivisions of your district.-Your enumeration district may comprise two or more different parts or subdivisions, such as: (a) Two or more townships, districts, precincts, beats, wards, hundreds, or other divisions of a county, or parts of such divisions. (b) The whole or part of an incorporated city, town, village, or borough, and territory outside such incorporated place. (c) Two or more wards of a city, town, village, or borough, or parts thereof. (d) Two or more incorporated cities, towns, villages, or boroughs, or parts thereof. Number of children born.-This question applies to women who are now married, or who are widowed, or divorced. The answer should give the total number of children that each such woman has had during her lifetime. It should include, therefore, the children by any former marriage as well as by her present marriage. It should not include the children which her present husband may have had by a former wife, even though they are members of her present family. Stillborn children should not be included. If the woman has never had any children, write "0" in this column. Number of children now living.-This refers again only to the children which the woman herself has had. Include all of these children that are living, no matter whether they are living in your district or somewhere else. If all the children are dead, write "0." 134. The following is a list of principal foreign languages spoken in the United States. Avoid giving other names when one in this list can be applied to the language spoken. With the exception of certain languages of eastern Russian, the list gives a name for ever European language in the proper sense of the word. Albanian Armenian Basque Bohemian Briton Bulgarian Chinese Danish Dutch Finnish Flemish French German Greek Gypsy Irish Italian Japanese Lappish Lettish Little Russian Lithuanian Magyar Moravian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Rhaeto-Romanish Roumanian Russian Ruthenian Scotch Servian or Croatian (Including Russian, Dalmatian, Herzegovinian, and Montenegrin) Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Syrian Turkish Welsh Wendish Yiddish 153. Women doing housework.-In the case of a woman doing housework in her own home, without salary or wages, and having no other employment, the entry in column 18 should be none. But a woman working at housework for wages should be returned in column 18 as housekeeper, servant, cook, or chambermaid, as the case may be; and the entry in column 19 should state the kind of place where she works, as private family, hotel, or boarding house. Or, if a woman, in addition to doing housework in her own home, regularly earns money by some other occupation, whether pursued in her own home or outside, that occupation should be returned in columns 18 and 19. For instance, a woman who regularly takes in washing should be reported as laundress or washerwoman, followed in column 19 by at home. Women doing farm work.-A woman working regularly at outdoor farm work, even though she works on the home farm for her husband, son, or other relative and does not receive money wages, should be returned in column 18 as a farm laborer. Distinguish, however, such women who work on the home farm from those who work away from home, by writing in column 19 either home farm or working out, as the case may require. Of course, a woman who herself operates or runs a farm should be reported as a farmer, and not as a "farm laborer." Children on farms.-In the case of children who work for their own parents on a farm, the entry in column 18 should be farm laborer and in column 19 home farm; but for children who work as farm laborers for others, the entry in column 19 should be working out. Children working for parents.-Children who work for their parents at home merely on general household work, on chores, or at odd times on other work, should be reported as having no occupation. Those, however, who materially assist their parent in the performance of work other than household work should be reported as having an occupation. SURVIVORS OF THE CIVIL WAR Column 30. Whether a survivor of the Union or Confederate Army or Navy.-This question should be asked as to all males over 50 years of age who were born in the United States and all foreign born males who immigrated to this country before 1865. Write "UA" if a survivor of the Union Army; "UN" if a survivor of the Union Navy; "CA" if a survivor of the Confederate Army; and "CN" if a survivor of the confederate Navy. For all other persons leave the column blank. This concludes the series. (c) Copyright 14 June 2001, Sandra K. Gorin, All Rights Reserved. sgorin@glasgow-ky.com Sandi Gorin - A Proud Kentucky Colonel 205 Clements, Glasgow, KY 42141 (270) 651-9114 Member: Glasgow-Barren Co Chamber of Commerce http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/ <>< Research tips: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ky/Tips Barren Co web page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~kybarren/ Archives of SCKY: http://www.public.asu.edu/~moore/sck.html