The U.S. census is described in the Constitution and is not intended to help genealogists.� Over the years, politicians have altered the act of taking a census and have deliberately distorted the results for their own reasons.� Some politicians even want to "take" the census using random sampling and statistical analysis, and report that they can obtain a more accurate result than by "counting noses".� Better check the Constitution because politicians don't understand it -- at least they seldom act as though they do. Juanita wrote: > 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 ==== > Support RootsWeb! Help provide FREE genealogical resources on the > Internet: http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html