Re: Census accuracy

On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:13:41 GMT, Wes Groleau
<groleau+news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>J. Hugh Sullivan wrote:
>> know census records are often wrong. I know where one of my families
>> was from 1778-1806 (NC) yet they never appeared in a census - just one
>
>One of my ancestors in each U.S. census was
>eight years older than the previous one.  :-)
>
>-- 
>Wes Groleau

Some age 15 years in one census and 8 in the next. I track as many as
I can and average them out to an "about" birth date.

This is probably not the fault of the census taker. Many people just
never knew where or when they were born.

Hugh