Forum:Census Attempt

I am hoping to generate discussion and consensus about census images. I have read the other forum discussion and am going ahead believing that all census images are public domain and therefore uploadable.

I have added a single page of the US census as an image. I have also made it a page of its own, for transcription purposes. 1860 US Census, Minnesota State, Wabasha County, Lake Township, Pg 7.jpg

I suggest we use these pages as a 'sandbox' of sorts to create an example of how we would like a standard census page to look.

I am not an admin, so please don't aim discussion at me. I am a genealogist who would like to use images of the census, but see that there are no standardizations in place yet. I don't want to do a bunch of work, then have to go back and redo everything later.

Questions: My opinion - 1860 US Census, Minnesota State, Wabasha County, Lake Township, Pg 7.jpg (Date country, state, county, township, page number) Or similar for other countries. Largest to smallest.
 * What should census image titles look like?

Here's what I included in my example:
 * What should census categories look like?
 * Category:Census
 * Category:Censuses of 1860
 * Category:Censuses of the US
 * Category:Censuses of Minnesota
 * Category:Censuses of Wabasha County, Minnesota

Do we need all of these? Or are you including all the larger cat's if you enter it in the smallest?

I believe it is most useful to list all surnames that are listed on that page.
 * Category:Montgomery (surname)
 * Category:Johns (surname)
 * Category:Noon (surname), etc...

Since the image is available, I think only the header and names are needed. They become searchable then, right?
 * How details should transcriptions be?

Finally - Please feel free to discuss what else needs to be added, done, changed...whatever...to make census images most useful to users. Thanks, Lanica 21:58, March 27, 2010 (UTC)