Re: Moody-1850 & 1860 Census Reports
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Re: Moody-1850 & 1860 Census Reports
Billie Sweat 10/05/00
PLease remember you can not take an age off a census as an exact.A lot depends on when the census was done relative to birth month so can be a yr off either way and it also depends on the person responding and if they knew when they were born.It is not like today where we all know when we were born.I thought I was looking at 4 seperate families whose head of household had same name and a variance of 10 yrs in the birthdates of the head of household, only to find it was the same man, with 4 different wives.Divorce tho not as common then as today still occured more often than I ever imagined.