RE: RE: [Genealib] Genealogy questions asked at the reference desk - names on the census

[Brannan, Joyce A.]

We really do have to remember that not everyone is on the censuses.  I
was not counted in 2000, 1990, or 1980.  It is especially frustrating
because I had already started doing genealogy by then so I knew the
importance of having my name and family on the census, so I contacted
the census board and still was never contacted for information.  

That is just my experience.  Some people were afraid of what a census
could be used for and so avoid giving information.  That is still
sometimes true.

Joyce Adams Brannan
Technical Services Librarian
Julia Tutwiler Library, Station 12
University of West Alabama
(205) 652-3677
jbrannan at uwa.edu
 
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Subject: Re: RE: [Genealib] Genealogy questions asked at the reference
desk

I agree. I have yet to find my grandfather on the Ancestry's 1910
Census, 
with or without Soundex, and I know where he was born in 1909 and his 
brother in 1911.

Can't find my grandfather on the 1930 either but he shows up where he 
should on the 1920. Fustrating.

I need to find time to go through both locations via the microfilm. And 
then I expect that I will have to check the locations of other known 
relatives as well.

Linda Sutton
Oakland County Research Library