Comments on: CA Mortality Schedules—A Look at the Local http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2010/05/10/ca-mortality-schedules%e2%80%94a-look-at-the-local/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ca-mortality-schedules%25e2%2580%2594a-look-at-the-local The official blog of Ancestry.com Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:54:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Eileen http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2010/05/10/ca-mortality-schedules%e2%80%94a-look-at-the-local/#comment-45984 Eileen Tue, 18 May 2010 17:58:01 +0000 http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/?p=3829#comment-45984 Picking up on Nancy's posting (May 11), there has been an error in the Ancestry tabular presentation of morality index info. Transcribed entries for individuals show month of death and then, separately, census year. However, when individual entries are presented in a tabular database, these two categories of information have been merged. This is an error for all deaths occurring in months Jun-Dec in 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880--because, for purposes of these Mortality supplements, the "census year" ran six months back into the prior calendar year. Example: 1850 Mortality supplements: deaths in months Jun-Dec occurred in 1849; deaths in months Jan-May occurred in 1850. Same approach used 1860, 1870, 1880. Localities were instructed in advance to keep particular track of deaths in the last six months of the year leading into the census year. Picking up on Nancy’s posting (May 11), there has been an error in the Ancestry tabular presentation of morality index info. Transcribed entries for individuals show month of death and then, separately, census year. However, when individual entries are presented in a tabular database, these two categories of information have been merged. This is an error for all deaths occurring in months Jun-Dec in 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880–because, for purposes of these Mortality supplements, the “census year” ran six months back into the prior calendar year.

Example: 1850 Mortality supplements: deaths in months Jun-Dec occurred in 1849; deaths in months Jan-May occurred in 1850. Same approach used 1860, 1870, 1880. Localities were instructed in advance to keep particular track of deaths in the last six months of the year leading into the census year.

]]> By: Karis http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2010/05/10/ca-mortality-schedules%e2%80%94a-look-at-the-local/#comment-45921 Karis Tue, 11 May 2010 23:19:08 +0000 http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/?p=3829#comment-45921 There were not too many people for each of these but it was unique info for the ones that I looked at. Thank you for remembering CA. I don't know whether it is appropriate to suggest a source but take a look at Ernest P. Peninou's Viticulture books which have a lot for CA including census materials and bios. I'll understand if this shouldn't go here and gets deleted. There were not too many people for each of these but it was unique info for the ones that I looked at. Thank you for remembering CA. I don’t know whether it is appropriate to suggest a source but take a look at Ernest P. Peninou’s Viticulture books which have a lot for CA including census materials and bios. I’ll understand if this shouldn’t go here and gets deleted.

]]> By: Nancy http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2010/05/10/ca-mortality-schedules%e2%80%94a-look-at-the-local/#comment-45909 Nancy Tue, 11 May 2010 14:34:10 +0000 http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/?p=3829#comment-45909 The records that I have looked at so far are picking up the census year as the death date. The mortality schedule actually records "the month in which the person died" without a year. If the death occurred June through December, the death date is actually the year BEFORE the census date. The records that I have looked at so far are picking up the census year as the death date. The mortality schedule actually records “the month in which the person died” without a year. If the death occurred June through December, the death date is actually the year BEFORE the census date.

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