In a message dated 99-02-07 21:16:36 EST, you write: > The Census is taken every ten years. The last one was done in 1990 and I > did receive forms to complete and mail in. I have to wonder what the > return rate is and how much effort is made to get the information. I'm > afraid much information will be lost to future genealogists with regards to > the census. I have wondered about this myself. I was born in 1959, so I should have been counted in the census 4 times now. I can't say whether I was while I lived at home, but in 1980, when I lived alone, I never filled out a form or talked to a census taker. In 1990, I lived with a roommate. I remember getting a form in the mail, but it came at a particularly busy time of my life. I remember putting the form away in a drawer when it came in, expecting to fill it out later. Several months later...way past the deadline... I found the form buried under a lot of other junk in the drawer. I don't expect that either my roommate or I were ever counted for that census. I feel sorry for future generations trying to find me, but I hope they will have access to better records, maybe from the DMV or from my voter's registrations. I know those have stayed up to date! -- Cherie Atkinson Clark chersfmly@aol.com http://members.aol.com/chersfmly/ Looking for Atkinson in WV and PA, Fife in PA, Kimmins in WV and PA, Skiles in PA, Tolbert in VA and WV, Webb in VA and WV, McDaid in PA, and Faris in the WV panhandle and OH. There's only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that's not being talked about (Oscar Wilde) *************************************************************