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Subject: Re: [TMG] OT - Census Ethnicity
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 22:52:46 EST

In a message dated 1/7/04 8:56:40 PM Central Standard Time,
writes:

> I have some folks who were are listed as black when I know that
> their father was white

How do you "know" their father was white? I think you do NOT know....but if
it'll make you feel any better, probably the person who was completing the
census information did not "know " if they were black, either. My guess, is he
was guessing.

It was a "few" years after 1870/1880 when DNA came into being and unless
someone was actually there and observed it, when the "act" was taking
place....they probably don't really know who was the father.

Probably more that anyone wanted to know about it....<grin>,
John B. Windham
Metairie, Louisiana

This thread:

• [TMG] OT - Census Ethnicity by "Cheri Casper" <>
  • RE: [TMG] OT - Census Ethnicity by "Cheryl Chasin" <>
    • RE: [TMG] OT - Census Ethnicity by "Cheri Casper" <>
  • Re: [TMG] OT - Census Ethnicity by Sandy Kelley <>
  • Re: [TMG] OT - Census Ethnicity by Terry Reigel <>
  • Re: [TMG] OT - Census Ethnicity by Lee Hoffman <>
    • RE: [TMG] OT - Census Ethnicity by "Teresa Ghee Elliott" <>

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