Family Tutor: Federal Census, 1900

A-F.	Location, date
1.	Dwelling or house location and family number
2.	Person's name and relationship to head of household
3-9.	Personal information

1900 Federal Population Schedule

Column Headings

A. State
B. County
C. Supervisor's district number
D. Enumeration district number
E. Sheet number
F. Township or county division
G. Village, town, city, ward, etc.
H. Date
I. Enumerator
1. Name of street
2. House number
3. Dwelling number
4. Family number
5. Name of every person whose place of abode on the first of June 1900 was in this family
6. Relationship of each person to the head of the family
7. Color
8. Sex
9. Month of birth
10. Year of birth
11. Age last birthday
12. Single, married, widowed, or divorced
13. Number of years married
14. Mother of how many children
15. Number of those children living
16. Place of birth
17. Father's place of birth
18. Mother's place of birth
19. Year arrived in the United States
20. Number of years in the United States
21. Naturalization status
22. Occupation
23. Months not employed
24. Attended school
25. Can read
26. Can write
27. Can speak English
28. Own or rent home?
29. Own free or mortgaged?
30. Farm or house
31. Number of farm schedule

1900 Federal Census

The twelfth census of the United States took place on June 1, 1900. None of it has been lost or destroyed.

The 1900 census has been indexed completely 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 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