{"id":8937,"date":"2018-09-18T09:05:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T14:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8937"},"modified":"2018-09-18T09:05:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T14:05:57","slug":"the-census-we-use-is-not-the-original-usually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/18\/the-census-we-use-is-not-the-original-usually\/","title":{"rendered":"The Census We Use Is Not the Original&#8211;Usually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that the census we use today was not the one on which the census taker took his &#8220;original&#8221; enumeration.<\/p>\n<p>The census copy that was microfilmed, and eventually digitized, was the &#8220;clean&#8221; copy that was written by the census taker after he finished taking the census. He used his field notes to make the good copy that we use today.<\/p>\n<p>Any chance there was something in his field notes he couldn&#8217;t read? And what was the chance that he went down and asked for clarification on an age or place of birth?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that the census we use today was not the one on which the census taker took his &#8220;original&#8221; enumeration. The census copy that was microfilmed, and eventually digitized, was the &#8220;clean&#8221; copy that was written by the census taker after he finished taking the census. He used his field notes to make the good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}