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From: "Ray & Lyn Shamlin" <>
Subject: RE: [GEORGIA] Census Records
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 08:22:43 -0500
In-Reply-To: <BAY102-F104D4EAB1E1A8CE10D7AEFB3930@phx.gbl>


HALLELUJAH!! Gerald you are so right. The information on anyone is readily
available if you want it and are willing to dig or pay someone else to dig.
So the paranoia about protecting you information about yourself or your
family is just that paranoia!

There is always a better way.
IT IS OUR DUTY TO FIND IT !!!!

-----Original Message-----
From: Gerald Gieger [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 6:27 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [GEORGIA] Census Records

You can thank all the "privacy" paranoids for this...but what they don't
know, or won't admit, is that if someone wants to get info on you, they can
get it...even without all the Census and other information-gathering
bureaus...They just have to want it badly and enough is available to allow
them to assume your identity...All these laws about 70 year restrictions
only discourage the honest folks; the crooks are going to go right on
disobeying and ignoring the Laws anyway...

>From:
>Reply-To:
>To:
>Subject: [GEORGIA] Census Records
>Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 21:34:20 EST
>
>
>Well y'all--I have good news and bad news.
>The good news is that the census report I asked about is legitimate. I
>called the census bureau today and talked to a very nice woman. I voiced my
>concerns. She said that yes it is from them, but they had misprinted the
>forms and
>put that OMB number on the wrong side of the page. And that "they" refused

>to
>reprint all of them, they would just have to use what they had until they
>ran
> out. She also told me that they had discovered that every 10 years is not
>often enuff for them to process the information they must have to have
>effective programs. SO they have decided to send these out on a continuing

>basis to
>about 1 out of every 6 people in a community. Therefore you will be
>getting a
>form about every 5 years now. I just wonder why this was never reported
>anywhere that I ever read.
>
>The bad news--for genealogists: I was explaining to her what an invaluable
>resource these census records are for us. She--not being a genealogist did
>not
>understand, and had never seen one of the old forms. I explained the whole
>history to her and the information that could be obtained from them. She
>was
>very surprised to find that whole families names and ages and place of
>residence were listed. THEN she informed me that they no longer keep the
>names and
>information together. That only the numbers are important to them and that
>names and other "stuff" of value to us will no longer be available on
>census
>record...even in 72 years. SHe even called her supervisor over to double
>check
>with her and she backed this info up. Only numbers are collected from our
>records now and they are not compiled at anytime the way we usually see
>them.
>I was devastated and told her so. Now --is there anyone out there who has
>different information about this. I know we probably won't live to see this
>info--but what of future genealogists. She said she thought they may have
>stopped collecting names sometime in the 60's.
>I am going to send this along to my other lists--so you may see it more
>than
>once. BEar with me --I think we need a whole lot of heads on this.
>
>Stephanie Bradley
>
>
>
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