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RLP 230: Finding a Female's Father - Research Logs and Report Writing

The Research Like a Pro Genealogy Podcast

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The 1850 Census Does Not State Relationships

The 1850 census does not state relationships and then you have this citation to the 1850 census instructions about how they were instructed to list the head of household wife the children and then the other household members such as laborers or borders. It's so easy to just say oh well the 1850 census doesn't give relationships so we just don't even know who these people are but no we can actually go and make a more educated guess a better hypothesis, she says. The three younger Klein children Robert, Talitha, and John in two different households that are all born in Arkansas.

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