Changed my mind on the Census

[UtahApocalypse]

I was only going to respond with (2) the number that are living in the home. No names, races, relations, or other data.

I have changed my mind and will provide everything asked.

I over the last 48 hours (with only 4 hours of that sleep) have tracked my genealogy back to the 1600's. Most of this was through Census data. Not only did i learn who I am, but more history then can be told. Teacher's in New York, a Polygamist in Utah, A Farm family in Ohio, and so much more.

I want my great great great grand children to find me, and no who they are.

 

[disorderlyvision]

maybe they can find you in an internment camp like the japanese americans in WWII

 

[phill4paul]

maybe they can find you in an internment camp like the japanese americans in wwii

roflmao!

 

[low preference guy]

maybe they can find you in an internment camp like the japanese americans in WWII

a thread winner in post #2!

 

[New2Libertarianism]

Just because the gov. does something helpful doesn't mean that it should be done. Follow the constitution above all.

 

[brandon]

How do you go about tracking your heritage through the census?

 

[UtahApocalypse]

Just because the gov. does something helpful doesn't mean that it should be done. Follow the constitution above all.

Well this is one case where there is no alternative from the private sector.

How do you go about tracking your heritage through the census?

I am using ancestry.com and you can view the census records from 1880-1930 The database has already been digitized for the most part. I can pull up a record for a certain name, then see who else resided in the home and their ages. From there you just have to connect various dots to fill in things.

I have found out many amazing things from just the census forms; one instance was a family in 1890 that had a Servant, which shows that they were of some wealth in the New York area for that time.

 

[Working Poor]

I am using ancestry.com and you can view the census records from 1880-1930 The database has already been digitized for the most part.

Just goes to show it is not confidential...

 

[ToyBoat]

I mailed mine a couple weeks ago, but I just received another form in the mail. Did anyone receive duplicates?

<edit>

well, I just found this article...

Counting Once, Counting Twice: U.S. Census Sending Millions of Americans A Second Form
Friday, April 02, 2010

(CNSNews.com) – About 40 million “replacement” Census questionnaires are being sent nationwide to households in areas with low mail return rates, even if those households already have returned the first form they received, Census officials announced on Thursday.

And just days after completing their paid training, hundreds of Census enumerators in Northern Virginia were abruptly laid off without explanation on Thursday.

Census officials said mailing out a second form is designed to increase census mail participation, get a better headcount for the states, and save taxpayers the cost of sending out census takers to collect information.

The Census Bureau estimates that mailing a second questionnaire “in targeted areas” could save more than $500 million and raise the participation rate by 7 to 10 percentage points.

But what about double counting?

“[P]eople who have completed and returned their questionnaires need not fill out the replacement Census form,” said a news release issued Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau's Charlotte region. "You should only complete and return one census form," the release said. “Extra census forms should be discarded.”

William W. Hatcher, a regional director for the U.S. Census Bureau, said both the original forms and the replacement forms are bar-coded “to ensure that people are counted only once and in the right place.”

Many Virginia households are among those receiving a second Census form. The 10-question census forms were mailed to 3.32 million Virginia households in mid-March, and as of April 1, 57 percent of them had been returned, the Charlotte Regional Census Center said.

“The replacement questionnaire is a safety net and a wise investment,” Hatcher said. “It reminds people who have not mailed back their questionnaires to send it in now.”

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/63671

 

[evilfunnystuff]

I want my great great great grand children to find me, and no who they are.

Then pass this info down through the family through storys or writings.

IMHO if you have to learn it through census records it may as well be a stranger and it may as well have been a history book you were studying which would probly be a better use of time.

I don't see how this tells you anything about who you are. Had you learned about it directly through your family at a young age I could see it having some bearing on who you became but ...

 

[MelissaCato]

I mailed mine a couple weeks ago, but I just received another form in the mail. Did anyone receive duplicates?

No, I didn't.
But, there's a box of census forms at the local market for over a week now, and doesn't look like anyone needed one. LOL

Are all census forms the same ? Because the one I got via postal service to my home.. only had the first question highlighted to answer. #1 How many people in the home ? I glanced at the box of forms and those are different.

Just wondering.

 

[Free Moral Agent]

maybe they can find you in an internment camp like the japanese americans in WWII

LoL!

 

[centure7]

I have also changed my mind on the census. By answering how many people live in the household, I'm getting personal benefit by getting some of my tax dollars sent back to my state.