Family Tutor: Federal Census, 1920

A-F.	Location, date
1.	Dwelling or house location and family number
2-3.	Person's name and relationship to head of household
4-9.	Personal information

1920 Federal Population Schedule

Column Headings

A. State
B. County
C. Supervisor's district number
D. Eenumeration 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 January 1, 1920 was in this family
6. Relationship of each person to the head of the family
7. Home owned or rented
8. If owned, free or mortgaged
9. Sex
10. Color or race
11. Age last birthday
12. Single, married, widowed, or divorced
13. Year of immigration
14. Naturalized or alien
15. Year of naturalization
16. Attended school since Sept. 1, 1919
17. Able to read?
18. Able to write?
19. Place of birth
20. Mother tongue

21. Father's place of birth
22. Mother tongue
23. Mother's place of birth
24. Mother tongue
25. Able to speak English
26. Occupation
27. Industry or business
28. Employer, wage earner, or self-employed
29. Number of farm schedule

1920 Federal Census

The fourteenth census of the United States took place on January 1, 1920. None of it has been lost or destroyed.

The 1920 census has been indexed for all states using a soundex method. 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