Fellow Listers....A family tree member just raised the following question re 1900 census (was for Carol Co, ARK, but would apply anywhere I'd think): The particular household listed family members who supposedly were living there as of 1 June 1900; we have reliable info that the wife listed there had actually died 24 April that year during child birth. So, what gives? Anyone know of a Census procedure that would actually list people who had recently died? Appreciate any thoughts about this curious item. Puzzled in Olympia. Charlie Murphy

No, but I can imagine a scenario where the census taker asked the wife's name and the informant didn't say she was deceased, and the census taker didn't specifically ask. Or the census taker really didn't contact anyone in the household but secured information from a neighbor who did't think or bother to say the wife had died. Probably sloppy questioning on the part of the census taker. I ran into the same thing in the 1830 Foyd Co., IN census. A person who was widowed in 1825 remarried several months before the 1830 census was taken, and there she is, listed under her former name, in the house where she had lived beofre her remarriage. WKMcCulloch NAVLAWCFM@aol.com wrote: Fellow Listers....A family tree member just raised the following question re 1900 census (was for Carol Co, ARK, but would apply anywhere I'd think): The particular household listed family members who supposedly were living there as of 1 June 1900; we have reliable info that the wife listed there had actually died 24 April that year during child birth. So, what gives? Anyone know of a Census procedure that would actually list people who had recently died? Appreciate any thoughts about this curious item. Puzzled in Olympia. Charlie Murphy ==== KYJEFFER Mailing List ==== Search the Jefferson List Archives: http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=KYJEFFER or the Jefferson threaded archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/KYJEFFER ============================== Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx --------------------------------- How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messenger’s low PC-to-Phone call rates.

I have done a lot of work with different censuses and agree with Walkers comments. Although many of these records are very good and very accurate, there are many aberrations and errors. It is clear in many of the records I have seen, that the person in the household who spoke to the census enumerator, really didn't know much about the people in the household. I can only imagine that it was sometimes a child or maybe a visiting friend, and that the enumerator was in too big of a hurry to worry about or care that the information was less than complete and less than accurate. Without question it is possible that a recently deceased person could have been listed in a census record. Rick Waggener Walnut Creek, California ----- Original Message ----- From: "Walker McCulloch" <wkmcculloch@yahoo.com> To: <KYJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 7:35 PM Subject: Re: [KYJEFFER] Re: Census query re procedure > No, but I can imagine a scenario where the census taker asked the wife's > name and the informant didn't say she was deceased, and the census taker > didn't specifically ask. Or the census taker really didn't contact anyone > in the household but secured information from a neighbor who did't think > or bother to say the wife had died. Probably sloppy questioning on the > part of the census taker. > > I ran into the same thing in the 1830 Foyd Co., IN census. A person who > was widowed in 1825 remarried several months before the 1830 census was > taken, and there she is, listed under her former name, in the house where > she had lived beofre her remarriage. > > WKMcCulloch > > > NAVLAWCFM@aol.com wrote: > Fellow Listers....A family tree member just raised the following question > re > 1900 census (was for Carol Co, ARK, but would apply anywhere I'd think): > The > particular household listed family members who supposedly were living > there as > of 1 June 1900; we have reliable info that the wife listed there had > actually > died 24 April that year during child birth. So, what gives? Anyone know of > a Census procedure that would actually list people who had recently died? > Appreciate any thoughts about this curious item. Puzzled in Olympia. > Charlie > Murphy > > > ==== KYJEFFER Mailing List ==== > Search the Jefferson List Archives: > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=KYJEFFER > > or the Jefferson threaded archives: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/KYJEFFER > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx > > > > > --------------------------------- > How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call > rates. > > > ==== KYJEFFER Mailing List ==== > The Jefferson County, Kentucky History and Genealogy page is proud to be a > part of the KyGenWeb and the USGenWeb Projects, both of which are > not-for-profit endeavors. Visit us at http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyjeffer/ > for the latest updates. > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx >