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

[Günther Böhm]

Marlo50 schrieb:

> 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,
you are probably right. In this case, Gustav FUNCKE lived in a boarding 
house together with eight other tanners from Germany, Ireland and 
Maryland, USA, plus an Irish cook. Maybe he wasn't at home and someone 
else told the clerk his data.

Guenther