1980 census,one of my 2 daughteres was at Ohio U. I tried to get the census taker to list her at home 100+ miles west, but she wouldn't. Said that it would be taken in her dorm, which,of course,it was not. A pro genealogist has told me the 1960 census data was all transfered to computer punch cards,and the original data destroyed. Now,they still have the punch cards, but no longer the massive tube,instead of chip computer to read them. Back Up your data to several formats. My 1992 backups were to 5" floppies. I still have the drive to run big floppies stored in a closest, but no driver file to connect an old floppie drive to a modern computer. On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 08:53:29 -0800 "Joanne/erictem" <erictem@earthlink.net> writes: >SNIP >> I have seen every one of these census-takers snafus...And, on >one, the >>census person was tippling...Probably had a flask in his hip >pocket... >> Twenty years ago, when I was a pup, I considered the census taker >an >>intruder and it was none of his/her damn business SNIP SNIP > >****Me too! 30 years ago I lied about my age!! I confess! I made >myself >younger, of course. Yes, I was older than my husband. I see it all >the >time now on census ---women getting progressively younger than they >should >be as the censuses roll by. It doesn't fool me one bit! Ha ha. > > >==== OHADAMS Mailing List ==== >Help Instructions at: >http://www.zoomnet.net/~chipmunk/SurnamesMail.html >or contact Betty at: chipmunk@zoomnet.net >Archives: >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?surname=OHAdams >Adams Co., OH at USGenWeb: http://www.zoomnet.net/~chipmunk/OHAdams/ >Your gracious donations to RootsWeb makes this all possible!! >Rootsweb: http://www.rootsweb.com/ > ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.