[or-roots] common mistakes indexing 1940 census

Sat Apr 7 23:12:13 PDT 2012

just above the window you are transcribing into  is a tool bar and there are a couple of funny x buttons there one is blank field the other is blank line, what you want is to blank the whole line so click on that, then be aware you will have already blanked out the number field in the next line so you will have to type the line number in there again, notice you have to skip the number for the blanked line, don't start with the next number in the sequence. 
also here is another handy tip, if you should happen to do like I did last night and skip a couple of families [got to bottom of census and had five lines left over] don't despair; to the right of the blank box and blank line button are some more buttons, one will delete a whole line [mouse over to read which  is which] and another one will insert lines. What I did was just inserted five lines where I had skpped people and then when I was don deleted the exxtra lines at bottom  of page, all I had to do to save the ten lines that I put in the wrong place was change the line numbers.
As to the T's that Barb has found that are so mystifying I seem to remember there being a poor farm in that neighborhood early in the century??  Barb, again if is is not a number in colum three, it doesn't go in column two of the transcription page  I got dinged for entering a 109.5 so it has to be whole numbers. It really should have been 108.5 and if not entered that way I think it should have been blank but whatever.
CC go to 
http://1940census.archives.gov/   dead center in the page is a gray box reading;
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Click on the blue letters and follow the dierctions.  You have to have a membership in Family search so do that first, it is free, be sure and right down you password and user name and remember lower case or capitals make all the difference in the world so be sure you not it clearly instead of the hens scratching I usually use that makes me ahve to recover my password every n ow and then.
Les

--- On Sat, 4/7/12, CeCe Moore <cecemoore at hotmail.com> wrote:

From: CeCe Moore <cecemoore at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [or-roots] common mistakes indexing 1940 census
To: or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
Date: Saturday, April 7, 2012, 10:51 PM

Found it! Doing Portland. What do you do if a line says, "Here ends this block and starts another..."?

Tks! 
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> Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 23:24:54 -0600
> From: dsam52 at sampubco.com
> To: or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
> Subject: Re: [or-roots] common mistakes indexing 1940 census
> 
> found the page and it is unusual one.  Even other pages preceding this 
> one are unusual, too.
> 
> David
> 
> On 4/7/2012 10:50 PM, barbc wrote:
> >
> >
> > I don't think it is a transient list. Page info: Oregon, Lane
> > County, Glenwood, Township 17, Ed 20-66, page 82A
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Barb
> >
> > On
> > 07.04.2012 20:38, W David Samuelsen wrote:
> >
> >> any chance you were
> > looking at transient list?
> >>
> >> I have yet to see anything like that
> > personally. Can you recall what
> >> page it is (the clues: county, town,
> > sheet number, letter a or b, and
> >> any column 3 showing other than T1,
> > etc)?
> >>
> >> David Samuelsen
> >>
> >> On 4/7/2012 3:46 PM, barbc wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> > Mr Arbitrator, I have a question. I've just run across two different
> > pages where there is a "T" in column 3. The first one showed T1, T2,
> > etc. and the second one has just a T all the way down column. I sent the
> > first one back because I don't want my average to go way down. Thanks
> > for the help. Barb On 06.04.2012 23:56, W David Samuelsen wrote:look
> > like Oregon is catching up with Kansas, probably around 47 percent
> >>>
> >
> >>>> completed. Will find out in the morning or Monday to see where we
> > are
> >>>
> >>>> compared with Kansas and Colorado David On 4/7/2012 12:27
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