They are ditto marks. I'm arbitrator and that's the instruction. Don't try with these who are 4 years old and below. David Samuelsen On 7/6/2012 4:35 PM, Mary S. Scott (Michigan) wrote: > The line across the field has been on the batches of the 1940 U.S. Federal Census which I have done. > > That must have been the usual indication for identical information. > > Mary Scott

Ditto marks were used in the field reserved for place lived 5 years ago. Ditto marks would not be used for children under 5 as they would not have been alive then. ----- Original Message ----- From: "W David Samuelsen" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2012 1:19 AM Subject: Re: [LDS-WC] Indexing ditto marks > They are ditto marks. I'm arbitrator and that's the instruction. Don't > try with these who are 4 years old and below. > > David Samuelsen > > On 7/6/2012 4:35 PM, Mary S. Scott (Michigan) wrote: >> The line across the field has been on the batches of the 1940 U.S. >> Federal Census which I have done. >> >> That must have been the usual indication for identical information. >> >> Mary Scott > > Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to > [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Not necessarily. That is what was "supposed" to happen. However, I've run across a lot of pages where children under five have had those lines filled in...either with ditto marks, or places. I'm sure the census taker just got caught up in what he/she was doing and forgot that they were under five. Part of the joy of being human. Karen On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Cathe Taylor <[email protected]>wrote: > Ditto marks were used in the field reserved for place lived 5 years ago. > Ditto marks would not be used for children under 5 as they would not have > been alive then. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "W David Samuelsen" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2012 1:19 AM > Subject: Re: [LDS-WC] Indexing ditto marks > > > > They are ditto marks. I'm arbitrator and that's the instruction. Don't > > try with these who are 4 years old and below. > > > > David Samuelsen > > > > On 7/6/2012 4:35 PM, Mary S. Scott (Michigan) wrote: > >> The line across the field has been on the batches of the 1940 U.S. > >> Federal Census which I have done. > >> > >> That must have been the usual indication for identical information. > >> > >> Mary Scott > > > > Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to > > [email protected] > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to > [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Finding ancestors is like eating potato chips--you can't stop with just one!

and the instructions are very clear, blank-blank-blank, regardless of ditto marks for anyone who is 4 or younger. No Ands, Ifs or Buts. David On 7/8/2012 6:27 PM, Karen Tippets wrote: > Not necessarily. That is what was "supposed" to happen. However, I've run > across a lot of pages where children under five have had those lines filled > in...either with ditto marks, or places. I'm sure the census taker just > got caught up in what he/she was doing and forgot that they were under > five. Part of the joy of being human. > > Karen