Charlene... Speaking of Census Records have you seen the site below on census records? Quite interesting. Take a look at this article on Census, It could change alot of our estimating ages. I was surfing the other night, and found this article on "Census Day." Thought it was rather interesting, & others might also. > http://www.genealogybulletin.com/HTML/current.html Later Glenda ----- Original Message ----- From: Charlene Holland <char@presys.com> To: <ARSCOTT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2000 1:31 PM Subject: Census records > I read an interesting article on census records. > > Between 1790-1820 three copies of the census were made, all by hand > In 1830 and 1840 two copies were made, again all by hand > Between 1850-1880 three copies of the census was made, all by hand > Between 1890-1920 one copy was made and as most of us know, most of the > 1890 census was destroyed by fire. > > Is it any wonder that mistakes were made, names misspelled, or even just > initials used! I can't imagine having to copy all those records by hand, > can you? > > Charlene > > >