{"id":3821,"date":"2016-12-19T18:22:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T18:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3821"},"modified":"2016-12-20T01:09:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T01:09:25","slug":"are-those-1900-census-citizenship-questions-redudant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3821","title":{"rendered":"Are Those 1900 Census Citizenship Questions Redundant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1900-citizenship.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3822 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1900-citizenship.jpg\" alt=\"1900-citizenship\" width=\"157\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1900-citizenship.jpg 157w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1900-citizenship-100x300.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 157px) 100vw, 157px\" \/><\/a>The information on the 1900 census form seems redundant: year of immigration to the United States and number of years in the United States. After all, shouldn&#8217;t the knowledge of one allow us to infer the other? Couldn&#8217;t we just subtract the year of immigration from 1900 and arrive at how many years the person has lived in the United States?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe&#8230;maybe not.<\/p>\n<p>If an immigrant came to the the United States, returned to the home country for a few years, the then re-entered the United States, the information contained in these two columns is not repetitive.<\/p>\n<p>Do you always check those columns on the 1900 census for consistency?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The information on the 1900 census form seems redundant: year of immigration to the United States and number of years in the United States. After all, shouldn&#8217;t the knowledge of one allow us to infer the other? Couldn&#8217;t we just subtract the year of immigration from 1900 and arrive at how many years the person [&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-3821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821","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=3821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}