Both the preceding and following families were white. Earnie ----- Original Message ----- From: <CCarnivale@aol.com> To: <firefighter635@ga.prestige.net>; <ALMORGAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 3:09 PM Subject: Re: Morrow Family in 1900 census > Someone once told me that this book is not the book that the census taker > carried around, house to house, but a copy of that list. If this is so, we > know how we all make mistakes transcribing our notes. I took a college course > on researching and that was one of the main rules.."Do the notes neatly and > don't recopy them". Of course, we were supposed to carry a notebook with all > the correct forms for our notes...most of us ended with spiral notebooks and > we recopied our heads off! > Back to the census, I think this is the way people were missed...he would > turn two pages at once...and missed a bunch! > In this case, I think he just started putting checks in the wrong > columns...what were the following family? B or W?? > Carleen >