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From: "Jan Craig" <>
Subject: Re: [AYR] Census jealousy
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 22:33:03 +0100
References: <200109021619.JAA17753@mail17.bigmailbox.com> <000701c133dd$62c744e0$7f84fc3e@computer>


I'm afraid not. For every genealogist who would like to reduce the closed
period to 10 years, there is a civil libertarian who would like to make it
10 millennia. I have a foot in both camps. And who ever heard of a
government that listened, anyway!!

Mike Craig


----- Original Message -----
From: Duncan Malcolm <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: [AYR] Census jealousy


> Jim,
>
> Perhaps if we flooded our MPs with EMails we could get the law altered.
>
> Regards
>
> Duncan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Bundy" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 5:19 PM
> Subject: [AYR] Census jealousy
>
>
> > The following note has made me extremely jealous. Does me no good at
all,
> since my family didn't arrive in the USA till 1954. Is there any chance in
> future that Parliament could shorten the secrecy period of UK census
> information a bit? I'd love to be able to look at even just the 1911
census
> info. :(
> >
> > I asked my 86 year old mother if she'd mind if someone found her
> information in the 1921 census. She just laughed and said it wouldn't
bother
> her. Someone knowing about her as a six year old certainly couldn't be any
> harm. If there's someone I could write to where I could suggest this
change
> in law, I'd do it. Hope I'm not perceived as interfering in UK internal
> affairs here, but mine lived there (and many still do) till fairly
recently.
> >
> > Jim Bundy
> >
> > The 1930 census and all existing soundex indexes will become available
on
> April
> > 1, 2002 at the National Archives Building, 700 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.,
> > Washington, DC 20408-0001, and at NARA's Regional Facilities in 13 major
> cities.
> >
> > Part 4: Questions Asked on the Census
> > The 1930 census asked 32 qustions about each person:
> > Place of Abode
> > 1. Street, avenue, road, etc.
> >
> > 2. House number (in cities or towns)
> >
> > 3. Number of dwelling house in order of visitation
> > [this number supplied by census taker].
> >
> > 4. Number of family in order of vistation
> > [this number supplied by census taker].
> > Name
> > 5. Name of each person whose place of abode
> > on April 1, 1930, was in this family.
> > Relation
> > 6. Relationship of this person to the head of the family.
> > Home Data
> > 7. Home owned or rented.
> >
> > 8. Value of home, if owned, or monthly rental, if rented.
> >
> > 9. Radio set.
> >
> > 10. Does this family live on a farm?
> > Personal Description
> > 11. Sex.
> >
> > 12. Color or race
> > [White (W), Negro (Neg), Mexican (Mex),
> > Indian (In), Chinese (Ch), Japanese (Jp),
> > Filipino (Fil), Hindu (Hin), Korean (Kor),
> > other races spelled out in full.]
> >
> > 13. Age at last birthday.
> >
> > 14. Marital condition.
> > [Single (S), married (M), widowed (Wd), divorced (D).]
> >
> > 15. Age at first marriage.
> > Education
> > 16. Attended school or college any time since Sept. 1, 1929.
> >
> > 17. Whether able to read and write.
> > Place of birth
> > 18. Place of birth--PERSON.
> >
> > 19. Place of birth--FATHER.
> >
> > 20. Place of birth--MOTHER.
> > Mother Tongue (or Native Language) of Foreign Born
> > 21. Language spoken in home before
> > coming to the United States.
> > Here follows 3 columns of "CODE (For office use only. Do not write in
> these
> > columns)" relating to "State or M.T. [mother tongue]," "Country," and
> > "Nativity." These codes were entered to assist in statistical tabulation
> and do
> > not provide any information beyond that found in columns 18-21.
> > Citizenship, etc.
> > 22. Year of immigration to the United States.
> >
> > 23. Naturalization.
> >
> > 24. Whether able to speak English.
> > Occupation & Industry
> > 25. Trade, profession, or particular kind
> > of work done, as spinner, salesman,
> > riveter, teacher, etc.
> >
> > 26. Industry or business, as cotton mill,
> > dry-goods store, shipyard, public school, etc.
> >
> > 27. Class of worker.
> > Employment
> > 28. Whether actually at work yesterday
> > (or the last regular working day)--Yes or No
> >
> > 29. If not, line number on Unemployment Schedule.
> > [Note: Unemployment schedules no longer exist.]
> > Veterans
> > 30. Whether a veteran of U.S. military
> > or naval force--Yes or No.
> >
> > 31. What war or expedition?
> > [World War (WW), Spanish-American War (Sp),
> > Civil War (Civ), Philippine Insurrection (Phil),
> > Boxer Rebellion (Box), Mexican Expedition (Mex)].
> > Farm Schedule
> > 32. Number of farm schedule.
> > [Farm schedules no longer exist].
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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