Nick Charles ([info]wheelerwoolsey) wrote in [info]genealogy,
@ 2008-05-02 20:11:00
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Census Fun!
Something I stumbled across by accident....one of those many little things you run across in the course of genealogical research:



This is no relation to me, but look at this...from the 1880 Census....in Flint, Michigan....notice the girl Jenny Abertheny who is listed as "no relation" to the head of the household. Her occupation? Prostitute.
Jenny's husband's occupation? "Miserable loafer."

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[info]doorinward
2008-05-03 12:23 am UTC (link)
LOL~!!!!!!!!!!!

That is soooo horrible and hilarious.

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[info]miasays
2008-05-03 12:26 am UTC (link)
That is excellent, I love it!

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[info]carmiana
2008-05-03 12:44 am UTC (link)
LOL! What a hoot, thanks for sharing that!

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[info]nomads_quill
2008-05-03 01:12 am UTC (link)
Love it!!!

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[info]hulagurl151
2008-05-03 01:17 am UTC (link)
That's totally hilarious! LOL!

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[info]cemeteryconsort
2008-05-03 01:17 am UTC (link)
That's awesome. I would love to read more stuff written by that census taker! Or was it the mother who was so brutally honest. Too funny. That would be a fantastic addition to anyone's family tree. "Oh, great uncle Anthony, he was a misserable loafer!"

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[info]mrsmcgillicuddy
2008-05-03 01:22 am UTC (link)
Oh no! :)

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[info]skjaere
2008-05-03 01:26 am UTC (link)
Awesome. We only had cattle thieves and drunks in my family.

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[info]mcaries
2008-05-03 01:45 am UTC (link)
That made me laugh so hard.

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[info]julielu
2008-05-03 01:58 am UTC (link)
Ha-ha, that's pretty funny - miserable loafer! I've never seen anything like that on the census I look at - very amusing!

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[info]nocky
2008-05-03 02:52 am UTC (link)
Wow.. The censustaker knew these people personally and must've been bitter when she wrote it out. Are comments like this allowed to be written in?

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[info]twilight33
2008-05-03 03:42 am UTC (link)
WAHAHAHA that is hilarious!! Thank you so much for sharing!

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[info]joebanks
2008-05-03 04:49 am UTC (link)
Very good!

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[info]cearbhaill
2008-05-03 05:11 am UTC (link)
My guess is Dad wasn't thrilled with his daughter's marriage. Note the 10 year age difference.

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[info]goralka08
2008-05-03 05:18 am UTC (link)
hahahahahhaha! You should submit that to the "funnies" on ancestry. I know they were collected documents of people that had ridiculously funny names or statements on their documents!

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[info]tisoi
2008-05-03 07:12 am UTC (link)
I was searching the death index for the early 1980s for a town in the Philippines. One of the records were for the RIGHT FOOT OF ALFREDO DE LA VEGA at age 66. Which I guess came off due to gangrene. LOL

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[info]cemeteryconsort
2008-05-03 12:14 pm UTC (link)
Oh that's bizzare! A death certificate just for his foot? He must have really been 'attached' to it... Bu dump bump.

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[info]marketeer
2008-05-03 12:28 pm UTC (link)
That is so funny. Thanks for sharing!

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[info]rainbow
2008-05-03 06:51 pm UTC (link)
bwah! i wonder who was the one answering the census taker -- mrs mcmichael's?

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[info]tai_lu
2008-05-05 12:48 am UTC (link)
Oh thats excellent! It really made me laugh :D

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[info]lime_skittles
2008-05-11 12:08 am UTC (link)
That is hysterical!

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