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From: "Jo Autrey" <>
Subject: [TXBOWIE] Enumeration Dates of Census
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:38:02 -0500

This information came across the Ancestry newsletter and thought it would be
of interest. If you know the date of your ancestor, you can tell if they
would be included on the census for that year.

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Ancestry Daily News, June 26, 2002

1790 census taken starting on 2 August 1790
1800 census taken starting on 4 August 1800
1810 census taken starting on 6 August 1810
1820 census taken starting on 7 August 1820
1830-1900 census taken starting on 1 June of the census year.
1910 census was taken starting on 15 April 1910
1920 census was taken starting on 1 January 1920
1930 census was taken starting on 1 April 1930

Obviously every census enumeration was not done on the exact same day
for every household. Enumeration was an ongoing process which was
supposed to be done as expeditiously as possible. Information was
also supposed to be provided as of the census date. This usually was
the case, but there are always exceptions and genealogy somehow seems
to center on exceptions. An enumerator could easily have made a
mistake and there is always the chance that an ancestor misunderstood
the question.
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Jo Autrey

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