1850 Federal Census White County, Illinois (Transcriber's Notes) This Census was transcribed by Sue Traver and proofread by Keith Traver for the USGenWeb Census Project, http://www.usgwcensus.org/. Copyright 2002 by Sue Traver ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES PROJECT NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ ************************************************************************ NOTE: For more information on White County, Illinois Please visit the White County, ILGenWeb page at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilwhite2/ ************************************************************************ FORMATTER'S NOTE: In compliance with our policy to transcribe what is there exactly, the duplicate pages were added and numbered as follows: 270A, 270B, 270C (duplicate 270A), 270D (duplicate 270B), 294A, 294B, 294C (duplicate 294A), 294D (duplicate 294B) ************************************************************************ Formatted by Maggie Stewart October 2002 ************************************************************************ In addition to determining whether a letter was an "a" or "o " or if an "i" was actually a closed "e" with a stray dot of ink above it, the following problems were encountered while transcribing this Census: -- Small case letters of "r" and "n" were often troublesome. Benj may have been transcribed as Berry. -- The Enumerator's style of writing blended letters at the end of a word. Hence, his name. "Thomas Kerney" was often appeared to be written "Kerny" and words such as "Mary" may have been interpreted as "May"; "Fany" may have appeared to be "Fancy". -- Mr. Kerney also recorded numerous males with the given name of "Heny". At least some of these may have been Henry or Herry and incorrectly identified. -- In his abbreviation of states, Indiana was often written "In" with the letter "a" written above a line and 2 slash marks below the line. As this was impossible to duplicate on a keyboard, this abbreviation was transcribed as "INa". Illinois was usually abbreviated "Ills" or "Ill's". -- Finally, the Microfilm roll pictured several sheets that were duplications: Pages 270B and 271A were shown twice as well as Pages 293B and 294A. Duplicate pages were not transcribed.