This information came across the Ancestry newsletter and thought it would be of interest. If you know the date of your ancestor, you can tell if they would be included on the census for that year. *********************************************************************** Ancestry Daily News, June 26, 2002 1790 census taken starting on 2 August 1790 1800 census taken starting on 4 August 1800 1810 census taken starting on 6 August 1810 1820 census taken starting on 7 August 1820 1830-1900 census taken starting on 1 June of the census year. 1910 census was taken starting on 15 April 1910 1920 census was taken starting on 1 January 1920 1930 census was taken starting on 1 April 1930 Obviously every census enumeration was not done on the exact same day for every household. Enumeration was an ongoing process which was supposed to be done as expeditiously as possible. Information was also supposed to be provided as of the census date. This usually was the case, but there are always exceptions and genealogy somehow seems to center on exceptions. An enumerator could easily have made a mistake and there is always the chance that an ancestor misunderstood the question. ************************************************************************** Jo Autrey [email protected] http://www.usroots.com/~jautrey http://www.usroots.com/~jmautrey http://freepages.pets.rootsweb.com/~jmautrey This message has been checked by Norton2002 anti-virus software before being released. My computer is virus-free and has a firewall for added protection. The mind does not have a firewall, beware of what it absorbs.