[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Lying about age on ship's passenger list

[Marlo50]

Your talking about ages in the census records.  Remember that information 
was not always given by the person or some one close.  Suppose they did not 
speak English and someone else give info, they could be guessing, or if the 
enumerator knows the family he could fill in information himself and not be 
accurate.  Of course, some people did lie about their ages and what amazes 
me is that lots of men lied.
Margaret
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Günther Böhm" <GHBoehm at ish.de>
To: "Wolhynien-Liste" <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 3:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Lying about age on ship's passenger list


> Otto schrieb:
>
>>I've found individuals were caught in census reports where the
>>information is usually accurate.  These individuals also usually
>>became citizens.  There are naturalization papers that are accurate
>>to a large extent. Naturalization papers contain much information.
>>
> Otto,
> I got a contrary impression:
> [Karl Heinrich Ferdinand] Gustav FUNCKE, * 18 Nov 1834 Herdecke,
> Westphalia, Prussia,
> in the departure manifest from 'Germans to America', Hamburg 2 Oct 1872
> he was 37 years old (correct),
> in the immigration manifest, NY, 15 Oct 1872, also 37 years old (correct),
> and in the 1880 US census, San Francisco, 7 Jun 1880, he said to be 41
> (lied).
> I don't know if he had the American citizenship in 1880 (later I lost
> track of him), but if he lied in the US census, he certainly lied in the
> naturalization manifest too.
>
> Guenther
>
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