Census Day 2010 and 1910

Some thoughts on completing this year's census form, and thinking about family history, genealogy, and looking back at the 1910 census data on some of my family.

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• 2010
• 1910
• genealogy
• history
• family
• memories
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• ancestry

[HarveyEspatchelowe]

That's cool, Ken...we've been looking before around here...and ran into a courthouse burnt down in the Civil War...em...but had some leads around it...it's get foggy at that point...

[kenrg]

@HarveyEspatchelowe That's cool though - I'll be very lucky to get any data as far back as Civil War era - I'm having trouble just getting earlier than 1900.

[urthemole]

In Canada we have to do it every 4 or 5 years.

That doesn't make sense. There is more people in U.S. than Canada, why not flip it around?

Canada every 10 years? and USA every 5 years or both countries should be 5 years.

[kenrg]

@urthemole A lot can happen in 10 years - I'd be happy with every five!

[fehquig]

That's really cool stuff! I would like to learn more about my family tree than what I already know from my parents. A great uncle on my mother's side tried to work out our genealogy some decades ago, but those two world wars destroyed a lot of records in Europe and he couldn't go back farther than the late 1800s. I will fill out my Canada Census information whenever called upon to even though it's unlikely that I will have any descendants...

[kenrg]

@fehquig I think your Canadian Census is next year, and yeah, it's probably a good idea to participate. I'm learning a lot from the online archives, but at some point, I'm going to have to do some field work, maybe visit some cemeteries, dig around a bit... well, not literally, but, you know...

[LittleDuckyStudios]

@kenrg lol

[poopydoolarroo]

@DrWizardMan to hell with the teabaggers

[poopydoolarroo]

funny i threw the one they sent me to the trash !

[trendsetter74]

@ThrashKoreKing I'm a retard but you don't know shit about the constitution? Shut the fuck up sheep, just watch your tv and do nothing like u always do. I am not gonna waste my time on trash like u.

[JDGlassProductions]

@urthemole It is 10 years because the UN believe that it is the best period to check on the growth. Plus, the US has done a decade census since 1790. Why change now?

[ThrashKoreKing]

@trendsetter74 Your are fucking retard. "OMFGZ THERE OUT TO GET ME"

[NIMHFS]

in retrospect, la la land was actually pretty sunny and nice (note his tan) ...though i wouldn't go back even if i could.

[Jcolinsol]

I resent the census, not because it is an accumulation of data, which is necessary, data is important.

I resent being forced to surrender my information to the state. Now, you make light of us, rather unfairly, for mistrusting the state and valuing our privacy.

But remember that they are threatening legal action if we refuse to surrender that information. Fines, jail-time, ultimately it comes down to men with guns.

How civilized is it to appeal to men with guns?