What we do is one thing. What the census taker did may be something entirely different. It's been interesting to see the differences in census takers: hand writing, spellings, abbreviations (or lack thereof), and other variations in various parts of the country. Some seem to follow the rules, some seem to forget some of them. But, we have the 1940 census now, and it's getting closer to done every day. Karen On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 9:34 PM, W David Samuelsen <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > > > 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!