This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_918801108_boundary Content-ID: <0_918801108@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII In a message dated 99-02-11 16:19:11 EST, Rootsquest@aol.com writes: << *************************************************** OCUPYUSHIEN CENSUS TAKER-- "I am a census taker for the City of Bufflow. Our city has groan very fast in resent years and now in 1865, it has become a hard and time consuming job to count all the peephill. There is not many that can do this work, as it is necessarie to have an ejucashun, wich a lot of person still do not have. Ahnuther atribert needed for this job is good speling for many of the peephill to be counted can harle speak inglish, let alon spel there names." Are you still wondering why you can not find your ancestors on the census? >> Hi Group, I got this from another list and though you guys might like it! I think the census taker was descendant of mine because we seem to spell about the same quality! Tom Green --part0_918801108_boundary Content-ID: <0_918801108@inet_out.mail.aol.com.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Return-Path: <NIX-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-zb01.mx.aol.com (rly-zb01.mail.aol.com [172.31.41.1]) by air-zb03.mail.aol.com (v56.26) with SMTP; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 16:19:10 -0500 Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com (bl-14.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.30]) by rly-zb01.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id QAA15580; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 16:19:01 -0500 (EST) Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA01727; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 13:06:27 -0800 (PST) Resent-Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 13:06:27 -0800 (PST) From: Rootsquest@aol.com Message-ID: <1b6c5a45.36c346c0@aol.com> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 16:08:16 EST Old-To: NIX-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 236 Subject: [NIX-L] Census Takers Resent-Message-ID: <"C8hrB.A.ua.TZ0w2"@bl-14.rootsweb.com> To: NIX-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: NIX-L@rootsweb.com Reply-To: NIX-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <NIX-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/802 X-Loop: NIX-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: NIX-L-request@rootsweb.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit The following message was taken off the Little Rootsweb List. It was distributed by Ian Patterson. I thought the Nix List would enjoy this. Kelli Smythe ***************************************************** Hope yer all like this.. :o) Census Takers--True Stories The Texas 1850 Federal Census schedule, Volume 3, written by H. Swaringen, Asst. Marshall, 23 October 1850 contains this note written by the census taker. "I certify these to be sixty-four pages and a piece of the inhabitants and done as near in accordance with my oath as I could do it. The people was hard to get along with!" *************************************************** OCUPYUSHIEN CENSUS TAKER-- "I am a census taker for the City of Bufflow. Our city has groan very fast in resent years and now in 1865, it has become a hard and time consuming job to count all the peephill. There is not many that can do this work, as it is necessarie to have an ejucashun, wich a lot of person still do not have. Ahnuther atribert needed for this job is good speling for many of the peephill to be counted can harle speak inglish, let alon spel there names." Are you still wondering why you can not find your ancestors on the census? Ian Paterson English by birth, Scot by decent, Celt by Nature http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/ian.paterson ==== NIX Mailing List ==== Reminder: If you change e-mail addresses, unsubscribe from the old one and subscribe again with the new one. --part0_918801108_boundary--