Hi Mary The organizers of the census, wherever it may be, know there will be a certain percentage of people who will not give the information requested or will give false or misleading data Then there are the human errors that creep in, lost pages, interpretation mistakes, missed houses etc Followed by more errors as people transcribe the old pages, miss pages or turn over two, the reasons are legion So I suppose its a wonder we find anyone <g> Our problem is we forget what the census was actually for, compiling statistics and not for our benefit :-) Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 26/08/2012 19:51, Mary Benedict wrote: > > This might explain why some of my ancestors in the USA are in every > census and others never show up in a census or don't show up until > they marry. I found myself wondering if certain family members just > never answered the door. >

Oh I'm not mad at the census takers, I'm mad at my ancestors who didn't cooperate sufficiently with census takers. Why did they have to make things difficult for me? ;p > Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 20:50:08 +0100 > From: ovington1@sky.com > To: irl-dublin@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [IRL-DUBLIN] 1901 and 1911 Irish census question > > Hi Mary > > The organizers of the census, wherever it may be, know there will be a > certain percentage of people who will not give the information requested > or will give false or misleading data > > Then there are the human errors that creep in, lost pages, > interpretation mistakes, missed houses etc > > Followed by more errors as people transcribe the old pages, miss pages > or turn over two, the reasons are legion > > So I suppose its a wonder we find anyone <g> > > Our problem is we forget what the census was actually for, compiling > statistics and not for our benefit :-) > > Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > On 26/08/2012 19:51, Mary Benedict wrote: > > > > This might explain why some of my ancestors in the USA are in every > > census and others never show up in a census or don't show up until > > they marry. I found myself wondering if certain family members just > > never answered the door. > > > ****************************** > Topic: A mailing list for anyone with a genealogical interest in County Dublin, Ireland and the City of Dublin. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-DUBLIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thats easy :-) Because they knew you would come looking for them <g> Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 28/08/2012 05:12, Mary Benedict wrote: > > Oh I'm not mad at the census takers, I'm mad at my ancestors who > didn't cooperate sufficiently with census takers. Why did they have > to make things difficult for me? ;p