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|    john to Peter    |
|    Re: Amendment to Census    |
|    14 Apr 19 13:48:52    |
      From: john1@s145802280.onlinehome.fr              On 14/04/2019 12:47, Peter wrote:       > I was reading the Census page supplied by my Geneaology ISP for my       > grand-fathers household dated 1911. It shows the following information:       >       > Forenames, Surname, Age, Year born, Gender, Relation, Marriage Status,       > Years married, Birth place and Occupation.       >       > For my grand-father this information is provided in dupllicate on two       > separate lines both of which are, as I said, duplicates.       > The duplicated line carries the following amendment, "This an amendment       > submitted by a user".       >       > This puzzles me as I thought the census was an official page and not       > subject to later non-official alteration. And who was the user?       >       > If anyone wants to see the actual page, then the image reference is:       >       > RG14 - PN32090 RD588 SD2 ED23 SN322       >       > Peter James       >       Are you looking at the original census page or the transcription of the       page?              For 1911 the head of household completed the form you see.              If it is the transcription then there could be an error and another user       looking at it has provided their own correction.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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