Earl,
You did great. Let me add a quick note. In 1970 I was a special enumerator
for the census. I had to go to school several days at Muskogee. Special
enumerators went over the whole county and enumated hotels, motels, nursing
homes, old veteran's homes, jails, etc., where groups of people lived. We
interviewed ever fifth person as to income sources.
One thing was stressed in the school. NEVER say "Where did you come from."
They would tell you. But not where they were born. Someone might have lived
twenty or thirty years in one place and that is where he came from. How many
times have we gotten several places where some was born. If possible to find
a person on several census, the earlier census is usually more accurate. The
older a person got, the more he forgot. Also, the older a person got, the
older he felt and his age would vary up to five or ten years. If a wife or
child gave the information, they didn't always know. As I have heard so many
older people say, "We just didn't talk about that. We were too busy just
trying to stay alive."
Betty King
Mustang