Avoid the urge to correct the census taker's errors. The search engine will not understand them. Census Year You need to type in the year you are working on. This will only need to be done once per template. State Enter the state you are working on.
County Enter the county listed.
This is the enumerator. After the census was finished, the pages were bound into books with two pages facing each other and a page number was stamped on the upper right hand corner, leaving the other page blank. When the census was microfilmed, the photographers wrote numbers in pencil, which are often out of order. For more on page numbers, see the FAQs . With a template, you will need to enter each line number as you enter each new person.