Question about Luxembourg, 1848-1900 Census

jahofmann

I was looking at the census image for Page 309 of the Luxembourg 1848-1900 Census. Unfortunately, the records for the family of Max Sell and Anna Wallendorf have no birth years documented on the page. They are blank. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L971-1XLX?view=explore&cc=2037957&lang=en&groupId=TH-1951-32399-10914-53

However, going to either the page before (308) or after (310) which have birth years recorded range up to 1910. My question is how can this be a 1900 Census record when there are birth years from the 1800s to at least 1910?

gjt47

There are apparently some left page-right page mismatches in the film. Could very well be that image 307 has the missing right page for image 309. Birth dates Max and Anna would match the ones on the profile of Max (https://www.familysearch.org/nl/tree/person/details/LJ5D-86N).

jahofmann

I did pretty much figure that out, I already knew the birthdates for Max, his wife and Louisa. I found the birthdates of the other two children elsewhere. My question is how can the Census be called the 1900 census if it has birthdates beyond 1900 in its records?

Adrien Kintziger

@jahofmann @gjt47

The image catalogue seems correct as well as the counted years and locations.Paging to 311 , it shows that the first list for this location and december , is actually within the correct bracket for the years,so to check i browsed from zahlungsliste 1⇒to zahlungsliste 12 ; and indeed they confirm the time-fork is correct;census is valid and agrees with observations.To find the critter bugging us , i browsed back page 1-to⇒285 ,where the catalogue starts and ends , to find harmony in the time bracket,on every sampled page.(incremental steps of 10 pages/per).browsing beyond page 285 , some empty blanks,new headers , etc,…page 291 shows up.

This page lists! "All foreigners that were found living in this 'Gemeinde' of luxembourg at the time of the census-snap"….So this, obviously explains the other time bracket for birth and count , if you observe the header of that page!! december 1910 instead of december 1900. Added later as an annotation?Or simply handled as belonging to 1900—Who knows.

jahofmann

Thank you. It just seemed weird referencing the 1900 Census for the children of Max who are listed in the census and who were born after 1900.

Adrien Kintziger

@jahofmann

These old images and censussnaps are always given as is,and sometimes they have flaws.but insets as the mentioned are quite common,as are other legal documents that sometimes outrun the very nature of the census intended goal. Like say ,military records,naturalisations done elsewhere,poorhouses etc…many times these are only aquired with time delays,..and added later on.