Dear Swiss Listers, The answer to Dave's question about one's ability to obtain a long-form questionnaire is YES. On the inside of the short form questionnaire is a regional phone number. Call and request a long form. Anyone who has not received a questionnaire can call a regional U.S. Census 2000 office (call Information for the phone number of the office closest to you) and request one. I just received this information from the San Francisco Regional Census 2000 Office. Genealogists have a keen interest in census information, but it's importance is not appreciated by most folks. The results are used by business, social, government, and other leaders and planners to help identify the needs and wants of our population and how to provide the programs, services, and products to meet those needs. Funding at all levels is partly dependent on Census results. The Census is a monumental project. Recently, I received a mass mailing from the Census Bureau seeking workers. I'm sure it is difficult to hire enough good people, many of whom need to be bilingual, on a temporary basis for not much money, to work as census workers. Perhaps we can help ensure accurate counting and good results by taking one of these jobs. Certainly we can speak to others and encourage them to complete their own census questionnaire. Maybe we can suggest to others to request a long form. Maybe your genealogy society can volunteer some service. Why not call your local office and see how you can help? Kathy Devlin -----Original Message----- From: dschmutz@es.com [mailto:dschmutz@es.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 7:55 AM To: SWITZERLAND-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [SWITZ] census Would it be possible to obtain the "longer - more detailed" census 2000? Since I have become fascinated with genealogy, I realize how important the census is to future researchers. I also received the "short" form yesterday and was disappointed. I had imagined that the census for such a momentous year, 2000, would have tons of info to fill out. Who was your childhood sweetheart, etc. ;-) This is the 1st one I have filled out personally. Not sure why I never saw one in 1990. Maybe I thought it was junk mail. Then again, back then I did not want the government to know more about me than absolutely necessary. The "gov't" has ALL the info they need on me, why tell them anymore. best wishes, Dave Schmutz -----Original Message----- From: Juanita [mailto:juanita@inter-linc.net] Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 7:03 AM To: SWITZERLAND-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SWITZ] census Hi We just filled out our census of 2000 and we had little to fill out. We had our name, age how many in home, date of birth, if you owned your home, and our race. It didn't even have if you could read or write. In my grandpa census it ask if you could read or write. My daughter and husband received there census papers to fill out the same day we did and they live next door to us and they had a lot of pages to fill out. When these census come out there is lots of genealogy one can get from theres. Clifford Bollinger ==== SWITZERLAND Mailing List ==== Going on vacation? Gone longer than 4 days? mail to Switzerland-L-request@rootsweb.com subject line: unsubscribe nothing in message Do not add anything else but the one word.... unsubscribe