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help with one or two handwritten characters on us census #general
tom
i posted a page from the 1940 us census to viewmate, and i would like some expert advice on figuring out just one line, EPSTEIN Antol line 78, and exactly one field, "marital status". the original entry is scratched out, and i'm having difficulty with the correction. it's strange that it needed correcting, but i also wonder what the rules were for making changes?
please reply directly within viewmate: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM83042 thank you, ....... tom klein, toronto
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Image is quite blurry. However, at his age and how it looks, probably not S for Single. So that leaves M for Married or W for Widowed. So, was he a Widower?
Bill Wolpert in Minneapolis WOLPERT VOLPERT WOLPER WOLFE GROSSBERG Vieksniai Tryskiai Lithuania
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gwhaken
D is for divorced.
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Paul Chirlin
The enumerator first wrote M for married, then struck it and wrote WD for widow. Look at the name 2 above where exactly the same thing happened. The W is easier to see on that one but provides an example. The W on Epstein is partly hidden by the earlier M
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Paul Chirlin
Minor correction. On the 1940 census WD is used for widowed not just W. The top of the column shows the options available. Of course the individual enumerator may not always follow directions.
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Susan&David
The original request on Viewmate was "...his wife died in December
1940, (I think)" The most likely, and simplest explanation is: The
original entry was W and was changed to Wd to agree with the
instruction to enumerators, and his wife did not die in December
1940. She died prior to the 1940 census.
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David Rosen Boston, MA
On 7/14/2020 10:01 AM, Paul Chirlin
wrote:
The enumerator first wrote M for married, then struck it and wrote WD for widow. Look at the name 2 above where exactly the same thing happened. The W is easier to see on that one but provides an example. The W on Epstein is partly hidden by the earlier M
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