US Census

[ducatiz]

meh

i looked up my great grandpa's census information now that it's public (72 year rule)

they asked how many, names, ages, race and origin (where born).  i saw his signature (that was cool) as they used to go door-to-door with a log book and everyone put a single name on each line.. there was his name, granma's, then my grandparents and great uncles (all 11 of them).. and after each name, age, race, and place of birth.

big deal.

[DesmoDiva]

It's in the mail.....

[RAT900]

meh

i looked up my great grandpa's census information now that it's public (72 year rule)

they asked how many, names, ages, race and origin (where born).  i saw his signature (that was cool) as they used to go door-to-door with a log book and everyone put a single name on each line.. there was his name, granma's, then my grandparents and great uncles (all 11 of them).. and after each name, age, race, and place of birth.

big deal.

Good point...I was able to trace a big chunk of my family's dreadful tour across America for over 300+ years because the ancestors usually allowed someone to identify them before they were run out of town into the next wilderness....I figure I owe the same for anyone down the road in my family who tries to back-track to figure out why they are so incredibly farked-up 

[Popeye the Sailor]

Good point...I was able to trace a big chunk of my family's dreadful tour across America for over 300+ years because the ancestors usually allowed someone to identify them before they were run out of town into the next wilderness....I figure I owe the same for anyone down the road in my family who tries to back-track to figure out why they are so incredibly farked-up 

Couldn't you just have used police records? 

[RAT900]

LOL....not too far from the truth....we made the newspapers a lot in the 19th and early 20th centuries...

One guy was fined 5 dollars for shooting my g-g-grandfather in the face up in Healdsburg in the 1870's...probably for failing to get the job done right..."Gramps" went on living into his 90's

[angler]

Let's see how I can word this without it becoming very political very fast...

The only part of the census authorized by the constitution is a simple head count. This isn't a political opinion, this is a legal fact.

One might be bothered by the information collected because it has been used for unsavory purposes in the past. Example: Used to find people of Japanese descent during WW2 so that they might be "interred." And as for the remark about Blockbuster having more information, Blockbuster doesn't threaten large fines for not filling out boxes on their membership card.

Besides, simply because they're on the public payroll doesn't mean it's any of their damn business.

+11tyB

DO NOT give anyone personal information, particularly your gov't.  I got the form, filled out the head count info and sent it in.  That's all.  If they want more, they are going to have to take it from my cold dead hands  

You are naive if you don't think fascism is coming to a neighborhood near you......

http://thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/3164-senators-push-biometric-id-card

[ducpainter]

+11tyB

DO NOT give anyone personal information, particularly your gov't.  I got the form, filled out the head count info and sent it in.  That's all.  If they want more, they are going to have to take it from my cold dead hands  

You are naive if you don't think fascism is coming to a neighborhood near you......

http://thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/3164-senators-push-biometric-id-card

You went and took fact and inserted opinion again...

This is your last warning.