{"id":1820,"date":"2016-01-14T05:06:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T05:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1820"},"modified":"2016-01-14T05:06:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T05:06:26","slug":"in-the-1920-census-nancy-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1820","title":{"rendered":"In the 1920 Census, Nancy Said&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1821\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1821\" class=\"wp-image-1821 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/nancy-rampley-300x88.jpg\" alt=\"nancy-rampley\" width=\"300\" height=\"88\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/nancy-rampley-300x88.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/nancy-rampley.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1821\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of Nancy Rampley&#8217;s 1920 census enumeration, West Point, Hancock County, Illinois.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I found myself writing the phrase &#8220;In 1920, Nancy Rampley told the census taker&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And then I stopped and thought.<\/p>\n<p>The phrase was not accurate. I realized that any genealogical editor worth their salt should\u00a0not allow that phrase to be used for one simple reason:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We don&#8217;t really know who said what in the 1920 census.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Actually in most censuses we don&#8217;t\u00a0<em>really<\/em> know who provided what information. Researchers may suspect they know (and they may suspect for good reason), but the fact remains that there&#8217;s no way to know for certain who provided what specific census information. That does not mean the census enumeration is wrong or that we think the information was always provided by a neighbor. It just means that it&#8217;s possible someone other than Nancy Rampley provided the information in her 1920 census enumeration and my discussion of her enumeration should not indicate something that I do not know. Saying &#8220;Nancy Rampley&#8217;s 1920 census enumeration indicated the following&#8221; is more reflective of what actually happened than it is\u00a0to say &#8220;Nancy Rampley said in 1920 that&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I need to remember:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was not there in 1920 to see what happened when the census taker came to Nancy Rampley&#8217;s door.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found myself writing the phrase &#8220;In 1920, Nancy Rampley told the census taker&#8230;&#8221; And then I stopped and thought. The phrase was not accurate. I realized that any genealogical editor worth their salt should\u00a0not allow that phrase to be used for one simple reason: We don&#8217;t really know who said what in the 1920 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}