[or-roots] More census whining or when exactly did sex changes start taking place?

[Barbara Wulf]

I had not seen a reply to this question yet.

The 1920 Census date was 5 January 1920.  Which means even if they did 
not get to the house until June the baby should not have been listed.

Barb Wulf

On 12/24/2013 1:10 AM, Bil & Chris Strickland wrote:
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>> Riddle me this one;
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> Les, you'd had to have been there, and I know you are older than I am, 
> but even you aren't that old, so ...
>
> Dad was born in January 1920 (official birth cert, unofficial birth 
> cert, newspaper clipping, mother's personal statement, etc), but he  
> was NOT enumerated as an infant in the 1920 census -- the omission 
> would appear to be one of those fairly typical aberrations in the 
> census record.  How could one miss a six month old infant as being a 
> person?  That happened.
>
> I have another cousin counted twice as an infant on the same day about 
> 200 miles away -- probably skipped Dad wile trying to make up for that 
> error forty years later [actually, my guess is over eager 
> grandparents].  And you ask when sex changes happened? Every time they 
> missed the mark with their pen -- time to look at the original record 
> and make your own transcription, Les.
>
> Merry Christmas from the census takers!
>
> Bill Strickland
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