1. Location, date   2. Dwelling or house location and family number   3. Person's name   4. Personal information

1880 Federal Population Schedule

Column Headings

Location, date Page number Supervisor's district number Enumeration district number Village, town, city, township, district, ward, etc. County State Date Dwelling or house location and family number Name of street House number Family number Person's name Name of every person whose place of abode on the first of June 1880 was in this family Personal information Color Sex Age Relationship of this person to the head of the family Single, married, widowed, or divorced If married during the census year Profession, occupation, or trade of each person Number of months unemployed during the census year Sick or temporarily disabled, if so name sickness or disability Blind Deaf and dumb Idiotic Insane Maimed, crippled, bedridden, or otherwise disabled Married within the year Attended school within the year Cannot read Cannot write Place of birth Father's place of birth Mother's place of birth

1880 Federal Census

The tenth census of the United States took place on June 1, 1880. None of it has been lost or destroyed.

The 1880 census has been indexed using a soundex system. A census soundex is a phonetic index in which last names are grouped by how they sound rather than how they have been spelled.

The 1880 census soundex includes families with children age 10 years or younger. Families without children within that age group do not appear in the soundex!

The soundex coding system is easy to use: 1 = b, p, f, v 2 = c, s, k, g, j, q, x, z 3 = d, t 4 = l 5 = m, n 6 = r

Coding rules: The letters a, e, i, o, u, y, w, and h are not coded. The first letter of a surname is not coded. Every soundex number must be a three digit code. Double consonants should be treated as one letter. Names with two consecutive consonants that share the same code number should be treated as one.

Instructions: Write down the surname to be coded. Re-write the surname leaving out all vowels (except when the first letter of that surname is a vowel) and the letters h, w, and y. Write down the first letter and the next three consonants of the letters remaining. Write the first letter of the four remaining consonants, followed by the code number of the three letters remaining.

Examples: Typical Coding Stoltenberg S-T-L-T-N-B-G S-T-L-T S-343

If less than three letters remain, enter the number "0" to make a three digit number after the initial letter. Ott O-T-T O-300

When the first letter of the surname is a vowel, it becomes the soundex code: Applebaum A-P-P-L-B-M A-P-L-B A-141

Double consonants appearing together should be treated as one letter. Lloyd L-L-D L-L-D L-400

Satterfield S-T-T-R-F-L-D S-T-R-F S-361

Names with two consecutive consonants that share the same code number should be treated as one letter: Mickelson M-C-K-L-S-N M-CK-L-S M-242

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