"Occasionally it even turns out what appears to be conflicting information from two different census years actually agrees, based on the instructions".
There is a link below that last paragraph to enumerator instructions from 1850-1950.
Friday, August 31, 2018
Improving Your Genealogy Skills pt 2
This article, again from The Occasional Genealogist, discusses making full use of the census by taking advantage of the clues that are not always obvious. We thought this was especially interesting:
"Occasionally it even turns out what appears to be conflicting information from two different census years actually agrees, based on the instructions".
"Occasionally it even turns out what appears to be conflicting information from two different census years actually agrees, based on the instructions".
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