Posts in October 21, 2011

Sometimes we need to forget we are a genealogist and think about census taking as if it were our job pretend we were the clerk that couldn’t understand your ancestor imagine we are a semi-literate frontiersman collecting taxes imagine you are a non-English speaker with a fear of the government who sees the census taker coming think what it might have been like to have 4 small children, little money to spare, and barely able to afford a burial plot, let alone a tombstone Remember, the research is about our ancestors and the people who created the records that we use–not necessarily about us. ———————————— Check out GenealogyBank’s Offer for Tip of the Day Fans!