Dick Eastman had an article about the 1960 Census in his newsletter today. Most folks don't know it, but the 1960 Census was processed on a mainframe computer at UNC-Chapel Hill. The computer was in the basement of Phillips Hall. Then-VP Dick Nixon came to inspect the processing while it was being done. - Richard GATTISFB@aol.com wrote: > All, > > One of my neighbors is second-in command for the census. I forwarded the > Eastman article to him. See his comments below. Sounds like it is not a > problem to me. > > Frank Gattis > > ............................ > > I am second-in-command for the Census. Pretty exciting right now as > Census Day is April 1. > > Returned Census forms are shredded and recycled, but only after a > full-color image is made. NARA will receive those images. That's what was done > (though through lower-tech microfilm) for past decades. > > The article below seems to be about a contract for safely destroying > confidential data from our HQ facility and does not actually have anything to do > with 2010 Census data. We never destroy the last copy of such data, but > for example the payroll data for employees (with their SSN) must be safely > destroyed. > > Best, Dan > > > > In a message dated 02/18/10 9:51:28 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > HubbellGen@aol.com writes: > > Dick Eastman has an article about the topic here: > _http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2010/02/2010-census-no-image > s-to-be-preserved.html_ > (http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2010/02/2010-census-no-image > s-to-be-preserved.html) > > Carol > ************************* > Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/ > > To Unsubscribe: As a member you are automatically subscribed and remain > subscribed. To unsubscribe, email NCDOGS-admin@rootsweb.com with your > request. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NCDOGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > > ************************* > Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/ > > To Unsubscribe: As a member you are automatically subscribed and remain subscribed. To unsubscribe, email NCDOGS-admin@rootsweb.com with your request. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NCDOGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message