9 comments

  1. Bunny Brown Drueke

    In the 1900 census, my great-great-grandfather and his twin had yet to be named. The census taker said that was unacceptable, and he named them Booker and Oliver, over the family’s objections. Ten years later the boys were listed as Thomas and William. Lol

  2. Rick Bozeman

    If you’ve ever looked at some of those old census reports, a lot of them couldn’t write their own name legibly.

  3. Timothy Parrish

    It is still quite an experience taking the census!!!

  4. I. Hay

    I was a census taker (enumerator) in Wyoming in 1980. I had to borrow a horse to get to some of my houses since the ground was too wet to drive, there wasn’t enough snow for skis or snowmobile, and it was too far and too muddy to walk.

  5. Danny W Smith

    Perhaps that’s what happened to our senses… the government took them!

  6. Charlotte Bofinger

    Pat Melstrom Turner

  7. Crystal Brazil

    I have been a “census taker” many funny stories!

  8. Yvita Luckie

    And all the mistakes they made in names, spelling, relationships, etc.

  9. Karen Mellema

    That is funny, and bless their hearts half of time when the city folks came to the house trying to understand them and getting the names spelled right was just half the battle and the age.

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