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    1. Re: [MA-CENSUS-LOOKUP] Can u be in 2 place at once?
    2. F. P. Murphy
    3. Lisa Lepore wrote: >Yes, people can be enumerated more than once in the same >census - either because they moved, or because the census >taker did not follow the instructions properly. Even in the early >years, they moved around quite a bit. If you are talking about >2 different towns in the same state, I would think that was likely. > Hi - I've also found a number of my family line in different locations in the same census beginning in the 1850 census, particularly sons and daughters who worked for others as farm hands or servants or school teachers and were listed with their own families and also with the families where they lived as workers, and frequently in different towns. Fred Murphy (frpamu@cshore.com)

    04/11/2005 09:12:11