I had relatives who stated all their ages as "Over 21" in the 1930 census. They were so secretive about their ages that it carried over to death as their grave stones only showed a death year and no birth dates.
-----Original Message----- From: Brian L. Lightfoot [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 23, 2015 4:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Re: Census event vs source The census reports are replete with all sorts of incorrect and misleading information. Typical of most was the incorrect reporting of ages; for example, if a census was taken on April 1, and a child's 5th birthday was on April 30, but the enumerator did not make it around to the house until June, the child's age was sometimes incorrectly recorded as 5 instead of 4. And then you have the social phenomena of most women understating their age by several years. It's just the way they did things back then. Brian in CA Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://support.legacyfamilytree.com Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
