Some lab work
Ye socks who may be as addicted to genealogical pursuits as yours truly have no doubt explored the LDS church's great web site www.familysearch.com.But, ye may not be aware that they have a bunch of records that they're still trying to get completely indexed.
And, if ye can exercise just a little patience, they'll let you browse thru the unindexed images in the "labs" section: http://labs.familysearch.com
I was pretty excited to see one of the projects they're working on is the 1935 Florida state census.
I know, it doesn't take much to excite a genealogy addict, does it?!
Anyway, it didn't take me long to stumble across the image posted here, an enumeration of my great-grandfather's household in Orlando. Here's a transcription in case you have difficulty zooming-in on the jpg:
Orange County, Precinct 11, Orlando, 17 East Muriel:
* Morgan, William S., 35 M W husband, b Missouri, high school education, owner, government mail carrier.
* Morgan, Mrs. William S., 31 F W wife, b Georgia, college education, housewife.
* Morgan, Edith, 10 F W daughter, b Florida, in school.
* Morgan, Billie, 9 M W son, b Florida, in school.
* Morgan, Dorothy, 6 F W daughter, b Florida, in school.
* Morgan, Richard, 5 M W son, b Florida.
* Morgan, Eunice, 0 M W daughter, b Florida.
I think the greatest thing about this record is that it lists my Aunt Diane by her first name "Eunice" and that she was zero-years-old!
Labels: genealogy, Morgan family
posted by wsmv at
9:21 AM
4 Comments:
Perhaps more interesting than being under the age of 1, hence 0, is that Eunice (Diane) was apparently M, or male.
Like a boy named Sue?
Or was that a typo?
Oh, my! That was definitely a typo! The 1935 Florida State Census form is odd in that it recorded each person's age under a separate column based on gender. Yours truly evidently got his eye's crossed, as the original image clearly has the big goose egg under the FEMALE column!
I'm a Blakesley in Utah with roots back to Orange, County CA, have you any links that take you to CA?
judsonblakesley@gmail.com
I hope so, it'd be great to exchange some genealogy.
Yes, I have found at least two Blakesley links to California: (1) Warren A. Blakesley (a brother of my ancestor Amasa) went to Plumas County, CA, during the Gold Rush; and (2) Civil War veteran Robert W. Blakesley (brother of my ancestor Edson, himself a Civil War vet) settled in Vallejo, CA, in the early 1900s. Let me know if either of these names ring any bells with you!
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