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i found out lot off my relatives lied about there
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Kevin | Report | 13 Apr 2010 21:57 |
thanks for your help guys |
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RobG | Report | 13 Apr 2010 15:09 |
In addition to all the other reasons mentioned, they may have said they were older than their real age to be able to get married and felt they had to stick to that for all official documents. |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 13 Apr 2010 12:41 |
1841 was supposed to be rounded down to the nearest 5 years for adults, but many have the actual age recorded. Later censuses were supposed to record the actual age. |
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Rambling | Report | 13 Apr 2010 12:25 |
and do not rely solely on the transcriptions, always look at the image itself, and be aware that census takers rounded up (or down can't remember off hand lol) on some of the census. |
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Researching: |
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Thelma | Report | 13 Apr 2010 11:50 |
I doubt they lied. |
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Kevin | Report | 13 Apr 2010 11:48 |
a year either way on birth dates makes searching harder |