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Neighbors

Legg inn av clifto » 20 des 2007 18:09:21

I'm having a very busy morning all of a sudden.

I started out opening the database to look up a few unusual first names for
the Licenda thread, and I happened across Boliver Sharp. Opened the record
and looked at a census form or two, and somehow decided to start tracking
his neighbors, figuring people didn't move too often in country where the
census listed everyone as living on farms.

Lo and behold! Suddenly I'm able to identify Sim King, Franswaw Jenkins
(try looking at THAT one for a while in cursive handwriting, trying to
figure out what the heck the writer was trying to say, before actually
typing it and sounding it out, and you'll know why it didn't hit home),
and a host of others; they're mostly people I already had in my database,
but hadn't identified as being, for example, in the 1910 Census and of
course hadn't documented their status then. Found at least one new child
in a family, and I've been at this less than an hour.

I'm going to have to work out some way of plotting neighborhoods, or of
somehow keeping track of the relative locations of people and families.
This could have interesting repercussions.

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as much pollution as 20,000 cars in a year.

ChrisGW

Re: Neighbors

Legg inn av ChrisGW » 21 des 2007 01:19:34

clifto wrote:
I'm having a very busy morning all of a sudden.

I started out opening the database to look up a few unusual first names for
the Licenda thread, and I happened across Boliver Sharp. Opened the record
and looked at a census form or two, and somehow decided to start tracking
his neighbors, figuring people didn't move too often in country where the
census listed everyone as living on farms.

Lo and behold! Suddenly I'm able to identify Sim King, Franswaw Jenkins
(try looking at THAT one for a while in cursive handwriting, trying to
figure out what the heck the writer was trying to say, before actually
typing it and sounding it out, and you'll know why it didn't hit home),
and a host of others; they're mostly people I already had in my database,
but hadn't identified as being, for example, in the 1910 Census and of
course hadn't documented their status then. Found at least one new child
in a family, and I've been at this less than an hour.

I'm going to have to work out some way of plotting neighborhoods, or of
somehow keeping track of the relative locations of people and families.
This could have interesting repercussions.

That is how I found a bunch of relatives. They were Sigloh's and had a farm in

the flatlands of Brooklyn and when I started looking at neighbors I found about
25 of them. In fact I was able to track down a great grand daughter today and
gave her a call. I think she was very surprised. She let me know that after the
holiday she was going to dig through some boxes and find some pictures of the
farm. If my memory serves me correctly the farm was started about 1850.

Good Hunting
Chris

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