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Subject: Re: [TMG] Censuses; WAS 5.07 Age Variable
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 17:48:37 EDT
In a message dated 7/1/2003 12:53:38 PM Central Daylight Time,
writes:
> And I have found one month old babies who shouldn't be there. I did run
> across a new state last night . . . I found several people who had been born
> in East Virginia!
>
East Virginia apparently refers to that portion of Virginia that remained
Virginia after West Virginia became a state. My gt gt grandfather's birth state
was East Virgina on both the 1880 and 1900 censuses. The 1880 was taken in
Iowa and the 1900 in Washington so it wasn't a census taker quirk.
Barb
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