Oh yes! As a FMP subscriber I have access this weekend to worldwide records from free! Yeay!
And I’m working tomorrow and out on Sunday afternoon! Bad timing me!
1920 Census – something in the church?
And amazingly the very first record I find, in the 1920 census, is Eliza, my distant cousin. Because that happens all the time in genealogy, not. So I discover when they arrived and when they naturalised, a new thing to discover abut one of my family members, ah, so that’s what it means… And I discover Edward and Eliza’s second, American, child, and that Edward works in a church, although I can’t read exactly what it is he does there… Ideas, please?
And I’m so happy. But there’s a sharp taste to the sweetness. OK, so I’ve got used to the fact that in 1891 the Scottish census form asked the enumerator to identify if a person is a ‘lunatic, Imbecile, or idiot’ and to identify whether they speak English and/or Gaelic. But colour? And in the 20th century? Asking someone to record another person’s colour is a whole different league. It’s just breathtaking to see it in, well, black and white. That’s the real fact that’s so hard to comprehend.
Lynne Black, 18 September 2015
Sexton
Thanks Diane 🙂