How can a family have two different 1940 US censuses?
I was adding information to a family, and there were two different 1940 censuses. The 1935 had the parents in both Manchester Township, Cumberland, North Carolina, United States and in Harnett, North Carolina, United States.
The 1940 parts had the family living in Manchester Township, Cumberland, North Carolina, United States and Fort Bragg, Cumberland, North Carolina, United States.
Did they move and get counted a second time because of a slow census taker?
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My instinct is to say that these must be two different families, because the chance of them getting double-counted in both a state census and a federal census five years later seems ...rather miniscule.
How many people? How common are the names?
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I think it is very possible to explain both the 1835 and 1940 duplications if your ancestor was in the Army. He could have had a permanent address and an Army address. Manchester township today is located within the boundaries of Fort Bragg, according to Google maps anyway and of course in 1940, Fort Bragg was a military location as it is today.
My grandmother was a student nurse in St Vincents Hospital in 1920, and she was counted twice, once in the Marian County Census at the Hospital where she is listed with all the other student nurses and again in the Vigo County, Terre Haute, Indiana census where she is listed with her family and has an occupation "away a nurses school". My husband's grandfather is listed 2 times in the 1910 Census. Once in Missouri where he lived, and a second time in Kansas, where we assume he worked.
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If you post links to the two census records, I'm sure someone will be able to give a good answer for this particular family in this particular situation.
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The names aren't all that common, and all match exactly. I think its like Gail says--an army family counted on base and off, since it's Fort Bragg.
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