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From: Erin Bradford <>
Subject: [ELLER-L] from the listowner...thanks and here is a treat:)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:51:13 -0700 (PDT)


Hello everyone. I want to thank you all for your help. I am still looking
for stories on using the census from 1790-1850, territorial censuses, and
searching for minority ancestors with the census (African-American, Native
American, Melungeon, etc.). I got a really good story that is really funny
so I thought I would share it with all y'all. Enjoy and thanks for your
sharing. I tried to get back to everyone to thank them personally, but
there were over 150 stories sent to me!:) I appreciate it.

The following was a job description printed in:
(1) "Branches & Twigs", Vermont Genealogical Society (
2) "Out on a Limb", Dodge/Jefferson Counties Genealogical Society, Nov 1995

"I am a cencus taker for the city of Bufflow. Our city has groan very fast
in resent years and now, in 1865, it has becum a hard and time consooming
job to count all the peephill. Thare is not meny that can do this werk, as
it is necesarie to have a ejucashun, which a lot of pursons still do not
have. Another atribeart needed for this job is good speling, for meny of
the peephill to be caounted can hardle speek inglish, let alone spel there
name."

The editor added "with tongue in cheek": "Pity the poor reserchers triing to
reed the Bufflow centsus rekurds."

Erin Bradford

Listowner for Barringer, Black, Bradford, Coventry, Eller, Hackett, and Kern
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/6106/genlinks.html (+800 genealogy
links)
http://www.angelfire.com/mt/listdex/index.html (Homepage for surname lists
above)

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