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From: "sylvia meeker" <>
Subject: Fw: [OHCLER] Re: OHCLERMO-D Digest V02 #38
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 10:32:54 -0800


> But remember that women and children were not listed by name until 1850.
> Before that they were only numbers in the household. Each time the census
> came out it had more and more information: names, relationship to the head
> of the household, birth places, parents' birth places, value of assets,
how
> many times married, how many years married, how many children born to the
> family, how many children now alive, etc.
>
> I do wonder how much information is being gathered today. I certainly
> didn't give any good information on my census form in 2000.
>
> Also remember that the total 1890 census was destroyed in a fire. There
are
> a few census replacements for that year, but not many.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Joanna Jones <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 12:32 AM
> Subject: [OHCLER] Re: OHCLERMO-D Digest V02 #38
>
>
> > on 02/21/2002 12:01 PM, at
> > wrote:
> >
> > Can someone tell me how early the census start?
> >
> > For the USA the Decennial Census starts in 1790 and is taken every 10
> > years.
> >
> > Ohio was formed in 1803, so the next Federal Cenus was in 1810 see the
> > websites
> >
> > <http://www.census.gov/population/www/censusdata/hiscendata.html>;
> >
> > <http://www.census.gov>; for the latest one.
> >
> > There were early tax payer lists though-
> >
> >
> > ==============================
> > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy
records,
> go to:
> > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237
> >
> >
>

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