It's Treasure Chest Thursday - time to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history and genealogy musings.
The treasure today is the 1870 United States Census record for my Carringer great-great-grandparents and their family in Jackson township, Washington County, Iowa:
The entry for the D. Carenngtr family is:
The extracted information for the family (indexed on Ancestry.com as "Carenngtr"), residing in Jackson township, Washington County, Iowa, taken on 6 August 1870, is:
* D. Carenngtr -- age 40, male, white, a farmer, born P, a male citizen of the U.S. upwards of 21 years
* Rebecca Carenngtr -- age 38, female, white, K. House, born Pa
* Harvy Carenngtr -- age 18, male, white, school, born Pa, attended school within the year
* Henry A. Carenngtr -- age 16, male, white, school, born Pa, attended school within the year
* Effie Carenngtr - age 11, female, white, school, born Ia, attended school within the year
The source citation for this census entry is:
1870 United States Federal Census, Washington County, Iowa, Population Schedule, Jackson township: Page 131 (stamped), house #49, family #49, D. Carenngtr household;
digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com); citing National Archives
Microfilm Publication M593, Roll 424.
It took me a while to find this record the first time I tried, due to the strange surname spelling by the enumerator on the form, and the enumerator's poor handwriting. A search for "Car*r" in Iowa smoked the entry out from the enumerator's rendition. The only other error I see is the age of D[avid] Carringer - he should be age 41, not age 40. He went by "D.J." and "Jackson" so I wasn't surprised to see only a first name initial for this entry. The enumerator used two letter abbreviations for the birthplace states, rather than longer abbreviations.
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