Sandi Goetze wrote: Good Morning How about a Nebraska style of Census Taker? I wanted to have a little fun with this one, too; as I have inherited old family letters, and, at least granduncle Will wrote legibly. Much of this is his spelling. Nebraska Version, with some poetic license taken. And, when you consider this, imagine how difficult the illegible ones are? Just hope that your census taker wrote legibly, even if their spelling did not conform to a standard. Liz Henning wrote: > Got this from another list. Pass it on, it's worth keeping in mind as > we pour over those old census' in search of our ancestors. Liz > CENSUS TAKER > "I am a census taker for the City of Bufflow. Our city has groan > very fast in resent years and now in 1865, it has become a hard and time > consuming job to count all the peephill. There is not many that can > do this work, as it is necessarie to have an ejucashun, wich a lot of > person still do not have. > Ahnuther atribert need for this job is good speling for many of the > peephill to be counted can harle speak inglish, let alon spel there names." -- CENSUS TAKER "J am a census takr for tha city of Lincon bwt owr city hear hass groan verry fast in yeres of late and now in 1865 itt shure has becum a verry hard and time confuming job two countt all tha peephole thar is not menny that arr abbel two Due this work as itt is necefsarie two haf an ejucashun wich Jenerlay a Lott of pursons stil Due not haf Ahnuther atributte need far this job is good Spelin far menny of tha peephole to be cownted can bearly speke inglish Lett a Loan spel there names Bwt ws censvs taykrs haf two ask peephole a Bout thngs thay arnt redy two Anser be Case thay whont two no tha reson Or thay arnt abbel two Anser be Case thay dont no tha Ansers Sow J must werk ever day till Late knight and itt Shure Seams a Lott a troble and J hafto go strate a croust from won howce two go two tha neckst howce riding ever adres hear and thear hafto go hi wp tha rode, then Sowth be Case my bos sait J hafto go Some whers els ware J gess he sait thars moore peephole bwt Some whers els J am a Fraid J am Swposed two no tha adres bwt I dont boleve thar arr any moore be Sides my Rhumurtsm has kiked in thice winter and J haf youced wp all the helth J haf and my back wont Straten So, J jucst gess peephole by wat tha naybors nexd howse sait befor J freze wen itts be low 0º so J dont be ded wen J be redy two go home Crasy Job cowntin peepholes any wagh" --SandiG