{"id":3536,"date":"2016-11-04T20:42:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T20:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3536"},"modified":"2016-11-04T20:42:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T20:42:20","slug":"lies-damned-lies-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3536","title":{"rendered":"Lies, Damned Lies, and&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s lies, damned lies, and then there are census records.<\/p>\n<p>Census information is only as reliable as the informant and the reliability of the informant can vary greatly.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a myriad of reasons why an informant may intentionally incorrect information.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>intentional deception<\/li>\n<li>ignorance<\/li>\n<li>indifference<\/li>\n<li>inability to understand\u00a0the question<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s a host of reasons why a census taker may have to guess or make up information.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>inability to understand the informant<\/li>\n<li>informant&#8217;s unwillingness to answer questions<\/li>\n<li>refusal of the household to answer the door<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One of my ancestral couples nearly tripled the amount of time they had been married.<\/p>\n<p>Others shaved years off their ages or gave places of birth that were totally incorrect.<\/p>\n<p>And then there are others whose enumerations are consistent from one year to another and with other, more reliable records.<\/p>\n<p>It depends.<\/p>\n<p>But remember&#8211;there are not just lies, damned lies, and statistics.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also lies, damned lies, and census records.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/censustaker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3077\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/censustaker.jpg\" alt=\"censustaker\" width=\"541\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/censustaker.jpg 541w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/censustaker-300x83.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s lies, damned lies, and then there are census records. Census information is only as reliable as the informant and the reliability of the informant can vary greatly. There&#8217;s a myriad of reasons why an informant may intentionally incorrect information. intentional deception ignorance indifference inability to understand\u00a0the question There&#8217;s a host of reasons why a [&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-3536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536","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=3536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}