[or-roots] more census whining

[Kith-n-Kin]

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So where did the extra e come from? was it just a typo? Was that the way a
Holte that whoever created the index knew spelled their name?

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Although "knowing" the families in the area may be an advantage to
reading/transcribing the censuses, here's a possible example of how that
fails.  Perhaps people in Singapore don't know European based naming
patterns, but they're less likely to make that kind of mistake.

>>>>I still have the hardest time with my peopel who supply bogus answers
though. The couple where the wife ages twice as fast as the husband or the
family I found a few weeks back who I had to really study them to convince
myself they were the same people. Almost all of the children had different
names ten years later and I only accepted I had the same people when I
realized almost all of the given names in the first census matched their
middle initial ten years later. Then there is my neices ancestors who simply
gave very different information every year in which nothing really matched
up except the numbers fo children.<<<<

This is an example of part of the problem -- not the transcribers, nor the
enumerators, but the six year old child, or the neighbor, who "thinks" s/he
knows enough about the family to answer the questions. And, BTW, the wife is
supposed to age half as fast as her husband. This must have been her
mother-in-law answering that question <G>.

I have a great-grandmother who, in the 1880 census changed her name from
Cynthia Ann to Rebecca and her place of birth to New York, rather than
Indiana.  That had to be a neighbor answering. This was in Whitman County,
Washington. 

On later censuses her children reported her born in, variously, Indiana,
Iowa, or Illinois. Hmmm, see any similarities there?

Even my grandmother reported her mother's birthplace incorrectly on her
Delayed Birth Certificate. She was eight years old when her mother died, and
I'm pretty sure she wasn't very aware of where they were from. 

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Isn't it FUN!

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More fun than golf, I'd say. <G>

Pat
In Tucson
Not Tuscon, and not "isn't that near Phoenix" -- or, from someone we met in
Hong Kong "Is that near LA?"