Congratulations, Connie! I have run a web hosting business and rental properties since 1998. I use QuickBooks. It allows me to track everything I need to track and produces invoices and statements. I don't download activity from the bank like I do with Quicken for my personal finances. I just don't need to but you may consider that important when considering financial software. QuickBooks is capable but is your bank capable of producing a QB file for download? Good luck! Best, Sue
Can someone help me in interpreting something on a census page? I'm looking at an entry for a Daisy Miller in the 1910 U.S. Census for Rapid City, Pennington County, South Dakota. She is a 25 year old married woman who is a boarder in a household that appears to be a boarding house. Here's the link for the page on Ancestry.com. http://search.ancestry.com/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=7884&path=South+Dakota.Pennington.Rapid+Ward+4.0085.2&sid=&gskw=Daisy+Miller If you look at the columns for occupation and industry, it looks like it says "inmate" in a "resort" but all of the occupation/industry entries for the people in the household have been Xed out. I am not sure but it looks more like she and most of the others in the household are either boarders in a boarding house or people who are staying at a resort. Notice that there is an owner, a cook, and a handy man. The owner's occupation is listed as proprietor in a resort, although that is Xed out too. The link I'm including has the instructions that were given to the census taker. Could he have made a mistake when he entered the occupation/industry fields and then Xed out those entries that were in error? If you look at the directions, an institution, even one that only covers some of the names on a page, should have been written in at the top of the page. Also, in an institution, the families would be listed all as one. At this address you can see that there is a number in front of each family group which, according to the directions, means it is a boarding house with multiple families living in it but I suspect it could also be some sort of "resort." http://usa.ipums.org/usa/voliii/inst1910.shtml Notice that 408 Sixth Street on the page before is headed by Nellie Miller, from New York. Doubtful that she is related but who knows. More importantly, the census taker did the same thing with that household; he Xed out the occupation and industry columns. Thanks for any ideas or suggestions, Ellen Ward
Ellen, While the previous comments have merit, I think you need to look more into Dora Dufran, the "head of household." In the 1920 census, she and her 10-year old son are in the same house, and she is listed as a nurse for a private family [Dorothy Dufran, 224 2nd Street, e.d. 156, sheet 5A, Ancestry's image #9 of 39]. In the 1930 census, she is still listed in the same house, and her occupation is listed as practical nurse. It is possible that she was caring for the "boarders" in the 1910 census. There were 2 men living at that residence with all of the other women. Could it have been a home for those suffering from tuberculosis? Many other censuses list patients as "inmates." Perhaps "resort" was a nice term for sanitarium. The only reason I can think of to explain the crossing out of the occupations and type of work is that an "inmate" at a "resort" really wasn't an occupation and should have been entered in the "relationship" column rather than "boarder." Newspaper records may shed more light on the situation. Debbie Hooper, CG (sm) Delmarva Genealogy Associates Specializing in Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia Certified Genealogist and CG are proprietary service marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists® used by the Board to identify its program of genealogical competency evaluation and used under license by the Boards associates >>Ellen wrote: Can someone help me in interpreting something on a census page? I'm looking at an entry for a Daisy Miller in the 1910 U.S. Census for Rapid City, Pennington County, South Dakota. She is a 25 year old married woman who is a boarder in a household that appears to be a boarding house.