1930 Franklin County, VT, Census Index

Intro
I've spent quite a bit of time browsing through Vermont census data looking for people during the last few years. When I looked at the 1930 Franklin county census data, the first thing that I noticed was that the data is (in general) much easier to read than the data of previous years. Because of that and because it'll probably be years before the genealogy companies come out with their own census indicies for the 1930 census, I decided to spend the time to create my own index to simplify my seaching.

The results are not perfect: although the census data is generally easy to read, there were many situations where it was difficult or impossible to read the data: not having access to the original data (which no longer exists) means that there will always be some level of uncertainty. In general, though, I don't think that the results are any worse than what I've seen from "professional" indicies that I have purchased in the past and I suspect that many people will find the index useful.

What is in the index
This index contains all heads of households and everyone in a household that had a different last name from the head of the household. data into the index. The data is in alphabetical order for the entire county.

The data comes from one reel of microfilm: T626-2428. The Franklin county data is split across two volumes: 5 (which also contains part of Chittenden county) and 6. Each line of the index gives the following data:

Volume

Page within the volume that the entry came from

ED (Enumeration District)

Number of the page within the ED

Line on the page where the entry was found

Last name

First name & middle initial (if any)

Sex

Age

Birthplace (uses standard abbreviations for US states)

Location (city/town/township)

County (always Franklin in this case)

Notes. The most common note is to document if a portion of the data is uncertain or to give possible alternatives for a name. If an entry has multiple name possibilities, then I include each possibility in the index.

And now, the index
The index data takes up a fair amount of space. To keep each page fairly reasonable in size, I have broken up the data into smaller chunks, based on the starting letters of the last name. You can get to the data using the links in the table, below.

????? to A	Ba to Be	Bi to Bo	Br to By	Ca to Cl	Co to Cy	Da to Di
Do to Dw	E to F	Ga to Gn	Go to Gu	H to I	J to K	L' to La
Le to Ly	Ma to Mc	Me to My	N to O	Pa to Pe	Pf to Py	Q to Ri
Ro to Ry	Sa to Sm	Sn to Sy	T	U to Wh	Wi to Z

Disclaimer
I do not claim to own the 1930 Franklin County census data. However, these web pages represent my interpretation of what is in the 1930 Franklin county census data and I do claim ownership of these pages and the data on these pages. I have given permission to rootsweb.com to make these pages available to visitors to their web site. These pages can not be distributed or reproduced on other web sites without the permission of the author