Jefferson, IL 1820 Federal Census
TRANSCRIBER NOTES / INTRODUCTION
Fourth Federal Census for 1820 Jefferson County, Illinois.

This transcription attempts to reproduce the original 1820 document. 
However, since it's creation the original document has suffered irreversible 
physical damage resulting in the loss of some data.

Surnames appear exactly as enumerated. 
When seeking a Surname all Soundex variants should be examined. 

Arithmetic and Spelling errors made by the Enumerator have not been corrected 
and remain as submitted by the Enumerator, Mr.Lewis Watkins, in November 1820. 

The only names that appear in this schedule are heads of families or persons who 
were not enumerated within a family or household unit. Because printed forms were 
not generally used, all or part of the schedules of some localities carry less 
than the prescribed 32 columns. This occurred in instances where no enumeration 
was made of persons belonging to groups ordinarily listed under these missing columns.

Occasionally, where the number of persons belonging to these groups was so small 
they were listed numerically or by name at the end of the schedules of the locality 
in which they were enumerated.            


Legend
[  ] = transcriber comment
/? / = all data for this family has been lost.
*    = a single character has been lost, or shows ambiguity. 
?    = Transcriber's opinion of lost or damaged data. 
- or . = No value "0"   

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This Census was transcribed by Misty Flanagan and proofread by 
John C. Jacoby and submitted to the USGenWeb Census Project 
http://www.us-census.org/
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