Ancestry Analysis Case Study Project
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Instructions 1. Download the necessary documents from the Canvas page for this assignment. You’ll need: These instructions Answer Form: download and type your answers directly into this form (or download from Google Docs). Guide to Ancestry for Libraries: contains detailed directions for accessing the database. 2. Make a short list of a few famous people who lived in the United States during at least two census years (years ending in “0”) between 1860 and 1940. You’ll want more than one possibility, because it can sometimes be difficult to find the exact person you’re looking for.
Consider that they have to be born before 1930 for you to find them in two different decennial censuses, which aren’t available after 1940. For the same reason, don’t pick someone who died before 1870. It is usually easier to research celebrities, since it will be easy to find basic information about them to use in searching for them. If you want to research your own family members, however, that’s fine and could be very interesting.
It will be necessary, though, that they have been in the United States for two decades prior to 1940 so you can find them in two different censuses. 3. Using the web if necessary, gather some basic information about the people you’re interested in. You’ll definitely want to know their name at the time the census was taken (birth or maiden name), the year of their birth, and the place of their birth; it’s usually easiest to use a state or country rather than a city or county. The names and birth places of their parents and the names of other family members can also be very helpful if available. This information will provide your search terms and will help you identify the right person. Be sure to copy the URLs (http://www. . . .) of the websites you consult for this information; you’ll need to include them in the answer form.
4. You’ll need a computer with web access. Although Ancestry will work on any device, it will be much easier to read the census sheets on a large screen. 5. Follow the directions in the Guide to Ancestry for Libraries, which takes you step-by-step through the search process. 6. Locate your person in two decennial censuses between 1860 and 1940. These don’t have to be consecutive decades but can be any two decades, as long as you’re locating the same person in both. 7. Download and save images of the two original, handwritten census sheets you’re using. You’ll need to submit these along with the completed answer form. (Sometimes a family appears on two consecutive sheets—at the bottom of one and the top of the next. If this is the case, you’ll need to provide both sheets on which they appear.)
8. Use these two original sheets to complete the Answer Form (Google Docs). You can type your answers directly into the form, then save it and submit it to me through Canvas. Click the “Submit Assignment” button above, browse for your completed Answer Form, then use the “Add Another File” link to add the two images you downloaded of the original census sheets. You can then send all three files together in a single submission. Some issues to watch out for: a. Use the original, handwritten census forms as your only sources of data. Ancestry provides a digital summary of the information, but often it contains details that aren’t in the original form. You can use these details to help confirm that you found the right subject, but when you’re filling out the answer form, use only information that comes from the census sheet itself, exactly as it is provided, even if you know that it’s incomplete or incorrect.
b. The U.S. Census is notoriously error-prone. Names will frequently be misspelled, which can make it hard to find a specific person. (Birth years and names of family members can help confirm that someone is the person you’re looking for.) It also frequently gets ages, marriage years, and other simple data wrong. Sometimes the enumerators made mistakes, sometimes the subjects lied, sometimes there were difficulties understanding people with limited English. Dealing with these errors is just part of the census experience! c. The census recorded legal names at the time of the enumeration. Pseudonyms will not appear, so you won’t find a listing for Mark Twain, but you will for Samuel L. Clemens. Women can present a special challenge, as they usually changed their names when they married. You’ll have to search for them under the name they used in the year the census was taken. d. Sometimes people weren’t living where you’d expect them to be. We’re a very mobile society, and people move around a lot. Sometimes the census caught people between moves, living at a short-term residence, away at school, or even on vacation. Occasionally it even recorded the same person at two different addresses in the same year.
Use your subject’s birth place, which doesn’t change, to locate them, rather than guessing their place of residence at the time of the census. e. The census sheets are crowded with information, written out by hand, and are often hard to read. Ancestry converts most of the written content to easily readable text (hover your mouse over any entry), which is convenient, but it often makes errors. Use the zoom feature to enlarge the original. f. You may find a person’s last name represented by a long dash followed by their first name (“———- John”).
The dash means that the information for that line (probably the family name) is the same as the line above it. Same thing with quote marks (“) as an entry: they mean that the information is repeated from the line above. g. It may be helpful to visit https://www.census.gov/history/www/through _the_decades/index_of_questions/. This site provides the questions that were asked in each census year. These are the questions that appear in very small type at the top of each column on the census sheets. You can also hover your mouse over the column labels to read them more clearly.
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