Shirley, Yes, the household number does have a reason. When the census enumerator went around he assigned every household a number. This is where you would look on the original census to find this family. There is more information given in the actual census than is extracted in this book or on the internet, such as relationship to each other, state of birth, occupation, value of real estate holdings, etc. The early census forms were not this good. As time goes on they began to ask for more information. As I am sure you know, for example, 1850 was the first US census that took names of all the people in the household and not just the head of the household. If you have access to the microfilm for the 1880 Census, it would give you a more complete picture of this family if you looked at the original Census. Deanna

Deanne, Thanks so much. As you may have noticed I am pretty new to this geneology tracking. When I go to Clarksville again, I will look it up. Thanks again. At 11:37 AM 2/14/01 -0600, you wrote: >Shirley, >Yes, the household number does have a reason. >When the census enumerator went around he assigned >every household a number. This is where you would look on >the original census to find this family. There is more information >given in the actual census than is extracted in this book or >on the internet, such as relationship to each other, state of birth, >occupation, value of real estate holdings, etc. The early census >forms were not this good. As time goes on they began to >ask for more information. As I am sure you know, for example, >1850 was the first US census that took names of all the people >in the household and not just the head of the household. >If you have access to the microfilm for the 1880 Census, >it would give you a more complete picture of this family if you >looked at the original Census. >Deanna Shirley Gordon Administrative Secretary 324 S. Kedzie Hall Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48823-1032 517-353-3290 Fax 517-432-2049