On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 19:16:34 +0100, Jim Halsey wrote: >Hello, >If returns were generally filled in by the householder/neighbour/child >and not by the enumerator, can some kind lister please explain to me >why all the filmed enumeration returns for EDs that I have viewed over >35 years of searching are written, for each separate ED, in the same >hand? Because what you are looking at are not the actual schedules filled in by the Householder, but the returns made out from the schedules by the Enumerator, so of course they are all in the same writing. Cheers, Tom <tomp@st.net.au> Tom Perrett Proud to be member of Melbourne DPS, first port of call re Victorian research - http://home.vicnet.net.au/~dpsoc