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Within a given "Piece" of the census you are likely to encounter four different type of page design:-
  • Instruction Pages located at the start of each Enumeration District and which we do not transcribe since these pages contain "Instructions for the Enumerator"
    The first page is informative since it normally defines the Enumeration Number and the verbal description of the area to be covered can be helpful in deciphering addresses that we may encounter later in the booklet.
  • Personal Record Pages form the remainder of the booklet, with the personal data arranged in labelled columns. The nature of details recorded varies between the census years; fields which are not needed for a particular year are ignored in the FreeCEN formats.

    At the top of the page is a series of 'boxes' which identify the various Administrative Districts concerned with the people detailed on the page.
    A Transcriber is concerned only with the Civil Parish (left-hand box), and the Checker will add the Ecclesiastic Parish (right-most box).
    Page Numbers are pre-printed on every page, whilst a larger hand-stamped Folio Number may be stamped top-right margin of every alternate (odd-numbered) page. Note that Scottish Census does not use Folio numbers!

  • Shipping , and some other groups, use a bi-fold page. One page will reveal the Vessel Name while the other lists the personnel details. (Transcribe details of any person listed as "not on board").
  • "Institutions" use a different booklet, completed by a member of the staff (rather than the Enumerator)
    These booklets follow the Folio Numbers within the Piece, but rarely are allocated any Schedule Numbers.
    The pages of these booklets are printed with line numbers, typically from 1 to 25. FreeCEN never transcribes these line numbers.
    Institutions are transcribed as single households (even if very large households) and separate families/households are not to be assumed each time one finds a "Head of Household". There may therefore be several "heads" contained in an Institution, which (as with other FreeCEN work) is transcribed in the sequence in which the data appears in the booklets.
    It is a matter of personal choice whether one transcribes from the fiche/film/CD to paper in the first instance (followed by data entry at the keyboard) or whether one transcribes dircet from the image to the keyboard.
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    Feb2003