The Problem:
Introduction Census data are among the most useful of all genealogy records available to the family historian, but the records taken before 1850 make it difficult to find birth dates.

The Solution:

CensusMate makes it easy to organize and work with the pre-1850 data -- Below demonstrates this novel timeline format. It shows and explains many examples, and allows downloading of blank worksheets for use with your own data.

The two figures below hint at the way the census data on Henry Haynes and his family are easier to understand and analyze in the timeline format. Go to the examples to see the details ... but first, peek at their suggestions for using the site-->


1810 Census - Snippet of Data
Problems with pre-1850 Census

    * Only the head of household is named.
    * Ages are bracketed into coded ranges.
    * Those age ranges vary from two to 20 years,
    * The ranges change from year to year.
    * The 1820 census, for example, is modified from the 1810 census.
    * And the 1830 census is modified from that.
    * Analyzing those data causes errors and confusion.


CensusMate 1810 Census - Timeline Format

Solutions with CensusMate Timeline Format

    * Age range brackets are easy to see.
    * Range of birth years is shown on the timeline.
    * Data can be aligned with other census years to greatly narrow the range of birth dates.
    * Data from other sources such as wills, bibles, marriages, or later census can help analysis.
    * The combination helps identify unnamed children.
    * Math calculations are unnecessary, avoiding errors.



Great file, thanks John!
 
To learn more about this script and get a copy of you own jump the the following link: www.censusmate.com/index.html

P.S. You can't download the file immediately, you will need to email the publisher and request the file.  It took about two of three weeks to get my copy.

Have a good hunt, and all the best,

After an earlier post I produced entitled "Free ways for creating and managing Portable Document Format (PDF) files"
I received an email from Mike, the creator of http://carputers.net, and his blog at
http://newsandtips.carputers.net.  After visiting his site and following some of his links, I was inspiration to make an additional post in regard to managing Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

In in the last post I mentioned  a PDF maker named CutePDF Writer.  Another PDF producer, doPDF, is much like CutePDF, and its also freeware.  Unlike the latter, doPDF is a self-contained program, doesn’t require 3rd party software to create PDF files as CutePDFs requires an installation of Ghostwriter.  Here is the link to doPDF: http://www.dopdf.com/

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All the best,