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    1. Question re language notation in Census report
    2. Elaine T. Maddox
    3. A volunteer in Minneapolis has forwarded the information below. It evidently appears in a 1920 state or federal census. Does anyone have any idea what the references to language might mean? I am under the impression that my grandparents immigrated from Bohemia in 1868. My father had believed they were both from near Prague but I have no concrete evidence of this. Could these notations possibly be referring to Magyar (O-fficial L-anguage)? Or am I way off track and there is an entirely different explanation for the line correction on language spoken? In 1920, all children of this couple were born and schooled in the US. Although the census taker doesn't indicate that, the children would not have spoken anything but English. None of the children recalled anything but a few nouns from the language spoken by their parents. > Also, for his, his father and his mother there is a column for > each one > that > says "language spoken". Every single one has Hungarian crossed > out and > "Morg OL" or "Mag OL" written above. I have *no clue* what the > census > taker > means by that! Very strange. Same crossed out and rewritten > notation for > Anna and each one of the kids.

    07/10/1998 08:20:54