Elk Lick Township, Somerset County, 1870
Post Office Elk Lick, Pennsylvania 
was enumerated by Michael G. Smith.
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Mr. Smith used the contraction H K for female occupation;
I took this to mean House Keeper and made the transcription using House Keeper instead of HK 

The majority of the census pages that I used were Illegible in some columns because of what 
appeared to be Ink bleedthrough from the opposite side of the page. 

This created a reverse writing situation on the side I was viewing which obliterated any notations 
in the Attending School, Can't read, Can't write, and Deaf,Dumb,Blind or insane columns.

Page 301A Lines 35 - 40. 
The Enumerator Changed the Dwelling and Family Numbers to read 145 but then corrects his error 
on Page 301B line 1 using Dwelling and Family Numbers 144 and picking up with 145 on line 4 
For this reason, I used Family and Dwelling Number 
144* for Page 301A lines 35-40.

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Elk Lick Township was transcribed by E. V. "JAN" Garber <maejan@cfu.net 
and proofread by April Phillips <Runt@snowhill.com>
for the USGenWeb Census Project, http://www.usgenweb.org/census.
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