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Member Since: November 2003 Posts: 28,261 Send Message	KathleenBell	Report	26 Feb 2005 16:09
	Ages are hardly ever right on census returns. You have to remember that a lot of people couldn't read or write and birthdays weren't as important to people in those days so they didn't always keep track of them. Kath. x
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 1,584 Send Message	Louise2212	Report	26 Feb 2005 16:03
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 1,584 Send Message	well i have the head his family, then his mother-in-law & brother-in-law but the ages are wrong and the place of borth for the BOI - despite knowing it's them was just wondering were it went wrong
Member Since: November 2003 Posts: 28,261 Send Message	KathleenBell	Report	26 Feb 2005 15:56
	Not necessarily, but the head of the household should have been written down first, and then everyone else's relationship to him or her. Kath. x
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 1,584 Send Message	Louise2212	Report	26 Feb 2005 15:54
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 1,584 Send Message	was it the head that gave the info to the enumarator?