This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_900915933_boundary Content-ID: <[email protected]_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Please read and act on. Pass it on. --part0_900915933_boundary Content-ID: <[email protected]_out.mail.aol.com.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from relay14.mx.aol.com (relay14.mail.aol.com [172.31.109.14]) by air16.mail.aol.com (v45.21) with SMTP; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 01:21:34 2000 Received: from fp-1.rootsweb.com (fp-1.rootsweb.com [207.113.233.233]) by relay14.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id BAA02080; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 01:21:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from [email protected]) by fp-1.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA18450; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 22:19:46 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 22:19:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <[email protected]> From: "Jim Sewell" <[email protected]> Old-To: <[email protected]> Subject: Fw: [MILLER-L] Re: Maiden Names and Census 2000 Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 22:17:23 -0700 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Resent-Message-ID: <"wTDK4C.A.FfE.vNts1"@fp-1.rootsweb.com> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/125 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable -----Original Message----- From: Cheryl Wray <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, July 18, 1998 5:00 PM Subject: [MILLER-L] Re: Maiden Names and Census 2000 >>Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 12:55:30 EDT >>From: Ann McReynolds <[email protected]> >>Subject: Maiden Names and Census 2000 >>Comments: To: [email protected] >>Comments: cc: [email protected], >> [email protected], [email protected], >>[email protected], [email protected], >> [email protected] >>To: [email protected] > >>I suggest that all of us who are online should email our Congressmen an= d >>Senators to give them the opportunity to lead the charge for compelling the >>Census Bureau to include women's "real" names, namely their maiden name= s, on >>Census documents! Maybe if they receive a zillion or so messages they'l= l get >>the point, but don't count on it. Even better, why not email the Census >Bureau >>directly at [email protected], and while you're at it, let them know we wa= nt >>everyone to be counted, with no sampling....please be calm. This commen= t does >>not reflect a "political" agenda, but a "genealogical" one. >> >>By the way, The Census Bureau maintains an excellent website, offering many >>different pages, although none seem to be truly scintillating...but, yo= u can >>find the Congressional Affairs Office (NO JOKE) at >>http://www.census.gov/cao/www/congress/appormen.html, and they will tel= l you >>more than you had every dreamed possible about Census 2000 and Congressional >>Apportionment......your tax dollars at work. >> >>Ann McReynolds, St. Louis > >>In regards to this movement to have women's maiden names >>added to the 2000 and subsequent censuses: I think it would >>be a very prudent thing to contact the local, state, >>regional and national officers for the National Organization >>for Women. Tell them it is high time and 70 years too late >>to have women's maiden names included on our nation's census >>records. Believe me, you could not get more clout, or more money >>behind this movement than through them. They could exert >>more political pressure than anything else you could ever do. >> >>Robert L. Williams KC7BUM >> ---Veteran of operation Just Cause, Republic of Panama 1989 >>Heather Williams, Bryce LeGrand Williams, Kjersten Chase Noelle William= s >>Ashland, Oregon >>[email protected] > >I think this is a GREAT idea, but don't get your hopes up. Census-takin= g >is so expensive, and sampling is less expensive than a comprehensive hea= d >count, and statistically-speaking, just as valid. That's really what a >census is for -- the statistics. The government does not use it to find >out who the people are, just the number of them, where they live, and >other facts necessary to plan and analyze programs, needs, voting >districts, expenditure of funds, etc. I remember reading a job ad in th= e >newspaper at least 3 years ago for census 2000 job openings, so that's h= ow >long ago (at the very least) the year 2000 Census has been gearing up. = I >imagine even the forms were printed long ago. > >It's only genealogists who want to know exactly who lives where by name, >date and place of birth, job, education, parents' birthplaces, date of >immigration, etc. Having a head count again like it used to be would be >our great gift to future generations. If every genealogist in the countr= y >were to innundate the Census Bureau, as well as every woman who believes >her maiden name is as important as her husband's, change might be >accomplished, at least by the 2010 census, if not the 2000 census. > >Anyway, the year 2000 is really the last year of the OLD millenium, not = the >first year of the new, so it is actually appropriate that the first cens= us >of the new millenium, the 2010 census, reflect an increased awareness of >and respect for women's rights, children's rights, everyone's rights. > >In fact, another change could be the question on race. Instead of tryin= g >to pigeon-hole everyone into the same categories of White, Black, Hispan= ic, >Indian, etc., people ought to also have the option of providing a >description they feel most comfortable with, such as German-American, or >Hawaiian-Chinese-Portuguese, African-French, or whatever. This would b= e >more accurate and could contribute to awareness of and pride in one's >origins. > >Cheryl Wray, [email protected] > >P.S. Sorry if you get this message more than once. Feel free to pass i= t >on to other lists than those listed above. > > > --part0_900915933_boundary--