Census and Voters Lists

The entry about Wild Cards was in last weeks lesson but we failed to mention it. So, here it is:

WILDCARDS

Wild cards are special characters one can use in search fields such as name and location to enhance a search.

Can use an asterisk (*)  or a question mark (?)

However, the first OR last character must be an actual letter

An asterisk replaces multiple characters

A question mark replaces only a single character

When using a wild card you must have at least 3 letters plus the wildcard

*ou or ?ou will not work                    *oud  or  ?oud will work

B*ett will work       B?rnett will work

Census Forms

Census forms may be downloaded from Ancestry.com , Familytreemagazine.com , just by Googling “genealogical chart images” , Cyndislist.com and other websites free. There are other sites and links in the Census Lessons from Mic’s class websites

About Census Records

Using census records was taught in previous classes by Mic at Brookhaven. Below are links to the syllabii pages for those classes:

Tracing Your Family I- Week 3- Census Records 1850-1940

Tracing Your Family Tree II-Week 5 – Review of Census Records and Censuses 1790-1840

Adventures in Genealogy-Week III Analyzing Censuses

Use Ancestry Catalogue to Discover Censuses