Re: Future UK Census Releases

Don Moody wrote:
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Don Moody wrote:
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Phil C. wrote:
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:12:03 +0000, John Prentice
<johnp.usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Wouldn't it have made things so much easier for us, if there had been a
"Name at birth (if different)" column in the Censuses?
Ah, well. Just add it to the large pile of things we wish had been
included in PRs, censuses, certs, military records etc. If I (and my
time machine) could change just one little detail, it would be to add
relationships to 1841 census.
And where born.
No. This comes up again and again in genealogy and there is NO satisfactory answer which everybody could or would give. The answer given to 'where were you born?' depends to a very considerable extent on the view of the person asked as to the knowledge of the person asking. I have a relative who would answer 'Loganasgeir' because he knows that single name is meaningful to me and is quite precise. The same bloke might answer 'Scotland' to a stranger in a remote part of the Earth. Both answers are true.

Furthermore, many people don't know precisely where they were born. If they were born in the maternity unit of a big hospital, and removed thence to a country village 20 miles away, grew up in that village, and had never seen any certification, then they are highly likely to say they were born in the village.

And so it goes on and on. Exact knowledge is not and never will be available about the chaotic creature called Homo sapiens. Do please read the story about some Greek bloke with a bed who wanted everybody to fit. It's an exceedingly old realisation that mankind does not fit any preconceived notion of what mankind 'ought' to fit.

Oh dear. You do take it all too seriously, don't you? This is a light-hearted "what if" thread.

If you want to indulge in trash and light-heartedness by all means do so in places set aside for nonsense. Genealogy is a serious subject with serious implications for individuals and for humankind in general.


Then stay out of a nonsense thread, Mr moody Moody.
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