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Dem2theMax

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7. LMAO!
Wed Apr 4, 2012, 09:03 PM
Apr 2012

I think Ruth Rush, the enumerator I'm following, was drunk at the time. You should see the writing.
It gets worse and worse as the pages go by. She's writing "this line is blank" instead of just leaving
blank lines, writes "end of block" in the lines, and has somehow forgotten houses on many streets.
On numerous pages she seems to have gone back to pick up the forgotten houses.
She'll have five or six streets on one page, and just one family listed for each of the streets.
And if you want to figure out the names of those folks, you'll have to find a way to
bring Ruth Rush back from the dead to decipher her handwriting.

In other words, just another day of genealogy. LOL!

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I am BEYOND jealous! Dem2theMax Apr 2012 #1
look nearby tru Apr 2012 #3
Oh, I have looked at EVERY page of the darned town. Dem2theMax Apr 2012 #4
Thinking back tru Apr 2012 #5
Unfortunately, my people were not in that one kdmorris Apr 2012 #6
LMAO! Dem2theMax Apr 2012 #7
Ruth tru Apr 2012 #8
That is a really good point. Dem2theMax Apr 2012 #9
Ruth tru Apr 2012 #12
every so often tru Apr 2012 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author Iterate Apr 2012 #10
That's really cool. PAMod Apr 2012 #11
My mother worked for the census, came home with some stories... Rhiannon12866 Apr 2012 #13
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