Daughter Number Three offers ultra-helpful directions for looking up people and places in the 1950 census.
A wonderful coincidence: DN3’s looking-up answered a question I had. The 1950 census identifies my maternal grandmother as a — what?
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It looks like “comtomtoa oporatr.” An operator, obviously. But the first word? It’s comptometer. DN3 found a comptometer operator listed for the house her family later occupied.
Thursday, April 7, 2022
The 1950 census
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That's some spelling!
I might still be struggling to figure it out.
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