{"id":4121,"date":"2017-02-07T21:24:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T21:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4121"},"modified":"2017-02-07T21:44:17","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T21:44:17","slug":"is-your-relative-enumerated-twice-in-a-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4121","title":{"rendered":"Is Your Relative Enumerated Twice in a Census?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was not supposed to happen but it did&#8211;being enumerated more than once in a United States census.<\/p>\n<p>If your relative was working away from home and living elsewhere, they may have been listed more than once. If a husband was estranged from his wife, but they were not divorced, he may be enumerated in two places even though he was only living in one. People who were moving around the time of the census may have been listed twice instead of being left out (that helps to correct the count for those people who were completely missed). My own grandmother in 1930 is enumerated twice, once with her parents and once in the household where she was working as a hired girl.<\/p>\n<p>The same thing happened to Mark Twain in 1850. He&#8217;s enumerated under his real name in both enumerations in Hannibal, Missouri: Samuel Clemens. Once he is in his household of origin and once he&#8217;s enumerated with a local printer.<\/p>\n<p>Someone even made a note on the edge that &#8220;This is Mark Twain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough it is&#8211;but apparently they missed the other reference.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4123\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4123\" class=\"wp-image-4123 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/mark-twain-1850.jpg\" alt=\"mark-twain-1850\" width=\"890\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/mark-twain-1850.jpg 890w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/mark-twain-1850-300x84.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/mark-twain-1850-768x216.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 890px) 100vw, 890px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samuel Clemens in the 1850 Census<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4122\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4122\" class=\"wp-image-4122 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1850-mark-twaint-2.jpg\" alt=\"1850-mark-twaint-2\" width=\"660\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1850-mark-twaint-2.jpg 660w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1850-mark-twaint-2-300x118.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4122\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samuel Clemens in the 1850 Census&#8211;again!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was not supposed to happen but it did&#8211;being enumerated more than once in a United States census. If your relative was working away from home and living elsewhere, they may have been listed more than once. If a husband was estranged from his wife, but they were not divorced, he may be enumerated in [&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-4121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121","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=4121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}