In a message dated 08/29/2001 8:33:44 PM Pacific Daylight Time, jleehunt1@aol.com writes: << << So what your are saying, is to look in other family members' household censuses, if you might suspect someone was left off the census. >> >> Just had another thought regarding census. Now, this one was weird. A volunteer sent me via e-mail some information from a transcribed census. It included information much as I expected. I had a later census which listed children but only giving initials. This information was great. When I ran across the actual film I wanted to get a copy of the actual census. One of the children was not listed on the film. I actually called the person who did the transcription because I could not understand how he could include a child that was not on the original census. He had not a clue. Said he copied what he saw. Sometime later I was told that each census was later transcribed/copied and a copy was left in each county, state and one for the Federal Government. I could not say for a fact that this is true, but the person who transcribed this census had definitely seen a different copy than the one I was viewing at the LDS History center.

Yep, You gotta remember in the old days all that copying was done by hand!!!! No scanners, copy machines, etc. Easy to make a mistake in transcribing for the extra copies they had to make!! Jim > -----Original Message----- > From: JCMartin01@aol.com [mailto:JCMartin01@aol.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 10:53 PM > To: MARTIN-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [MARTIN-L] Re: Martins] > > > In a message dated 08/29/2001 8:33:44 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > jleehunt1@aol.com writes: > > << << So what your are saying, is to look in other family > members' household > censuses, if you might suspect someone was left off the census. > >> >> > Just had another thought regarding census. Now, this one was weird. A > volunteer sent me via e-mail some information from a transcribed > census. It > included information much as I expected. I had a later census > which listed > children but only giving initials. This information was great. > When I ran > across the actual film I wanted to get a copy of the actual > census. One of > the children was not listed on the film. I actually called the > person who > did the transcription because I could not understand how he could > include a > child that was not on the original census. He had not a clue. Said he > copied what he saw. Sometime later I was told that each census was later > transcribed/copied and a copy was left in each county, state and > one for the > Federal Government. I could not say for a fact that this is > true, but the > person who transcribed this census had definitely seen a > different copy than > the one I was viewing at the LDS History center. >