RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine
9 March 2005, Vol. 8, No. 10,: "1a. Editor's Desk: Knowing What Enumerators Were Instructed

Searching for American families is pretty easy these days -- especially
if you subscribe to the U.S. census records at Ancestry.com. Just type
in the names and narrow the search to a particular census year and
state, right?

Alas, it is not always that simple. And, even when you find them, how
can you be sure they are yours, when the ages and other information
do not quite match?

Did our ancestors really lie to the enumerators? Did the census takers
'pad' the records? . . . . . .