JAOCON wrote:Gary,
2. I notice that in the search results you have Father and Mother names; in my experience Census records do not normally contain these (unless of course they are found as child) - where are you proposing this information is pulling from? I believe that this would imply that you could link Census Record A to Census Record B in either the same/previous/next sequential Census?
Like you have said, the results would only show parents names when a child is found. The data in my examples is dummy data and does not represent actual families. You would see nothing in the Parents Names fields if a Head of household or Wife were selected. The sample data is bad because I showed both a spouse and parents names, if parents names are available you would not see a spouse. You would also not see a mothers maiden name in the results unless she gave her maiden name as a middle name in the census.
Each census year would need different results details, because the amount of information available is different for each census. The 1850 Census is the first census where spouse and children were included in the census, prior to 1850 only the name of the head of household was taken in the census.
I was not proposing cross census linking.
You would have the ability with this proposal to move from census to census using the same search criteria, just by changing the census selected in the census drop down box. I was going to show that in a slides but forgot.