Forum talk:County Pages

Census data at county level
TG3 (above) reports on extracting material from census data. Good. And quoting the source, of course. In theory the site can benefit from having complete searchable transcripts of all censuses (to the extent permitted by copyright law).

We have a page or two for each U.S. census. We had discussions and an argument about how to name them. All was resolved bloodlessly. I forget what the result was, and I don't think we have yet implemented most of the agreed changes, but they should (eventually if not already) be under Category:Census and we can redirect to the "correct" names (once finalised) where required.

At state and county level, we can have separate pages too, and there is likely to be no greater level of standardisation than for the U.S. as a whole; probably the reverse. See Forum:Census pages for the sorts of names that are used elsewhere. So the same applies - if you can't readily find a standard-looking model page name, call it what you like and we will find something to redirect it to if necessary.

A page name starting with the year does seem to be the majority preference. Helps someone searching through an alphanumeric list (e.g. Category:Censuses) for ideas of where to look for an ancestor, because all that are impossibly early or late can be very easily eliminated from consideration. Next element should probably be "census of country" so that the searcher can easily eliminate a whole lot more unless the ancestor's movements aren't known with certainty.

Robin Patterson 10:38, 5 July 2008 (UTC)