Working in the census
By savypat
@savypat (20216)
United States
January 27, 2013 1:43pm CST
When I work in genealogy. I use the census to tract people in the families I am working on. Since the 1940 census has just been posted online I have again visited my families there. The US census is done every 10 years and is not release to
the public for 70 years. It really makes you realize how much the population grows
over that ten years. I can only guess what it would be like to work in the 2000 census.
Which ever census you are working in it's a wonderous treasure hunt for those tracting their family members.
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6 responses
@mariaperalta (19073)
• Mexico
28 Jan 13
wow.. bet you meet alot of neat and diff. kind of people doing that. Sounds like fun to me...
@natliegleb (5173)
• India
28 Jan 13
that is quite good and always there is a need to work and prove ourself and not only that we can know who are all in the family
@GardenGerty (169591)
• United States
27 Jan 13
I think that would be very interesting. I worked as an enumerator in a distant community in 2010, catching up with people who did not fill out their form. Maybe did not even receive it. The county I worked in is very lightly populated, windy, and barren. Instead of mailing the forms the government had sent them out in door hanger bags. I had some people who had filled theirs out tell me that they had found it out blowing in the fields. I wonder how accurate 2010 is going to be for researchers. Why do they not release it for seventy years?
@natliegleb (5173)
• India
28 Jan 13
because we can get to know and learn more things with ease and more over the census is driven by national figures which is a great boon
@skyandgrassplot (1497)
• China
28 Jan 13
If you just need to tract your family then I think it is simple,but census is really a huge job so it must take millions of people to do it.
@teotimoponcerosacena (1550)
• Philippines
28 Jan 13
It is lucky for you to experienced and I hope what you learned while working on those days made you happy today.
