The text of this motion is as follows:
> That the Parliament agrees that: > > - Under section 34 of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (which confers a power to modify the procedure to which subordinate legislation is subject), the power to direct the taking of a census under section 1 of the Census Act 1920 should instead be subject to the affirmative procedure when particulars falling under the description in paragraph 6 of the Schedule to that 1920 Act are prescribed, and > - The Census Act 1920, Section 1 (Procedure) (Scotland) Order 2017 [draft] be approved.
The draft Order can found in its original form here.
This motion was submitted by the First Minister /u/mg9500 on behalf of the Scottish Government.
The debate on this motion can be found here.
This vote will close on the 9th of December at 10pm (GMT).
Vote For, Against, or Abstain.
I work on genealogy research as a hobby on and off and I recently restarted because of the sales on ancestry, with a focus on my gx3 grandfather who is listed on a census from 1920 as a Servant in a household. I’ve found his father and mother from a previous census and they’re all listed as white. It also seems like some of his siblings (who I had to track down as well) went to live with other members of the community, possibly aunts. The strangest thing that I’ve noticed so far is that for one specific entry the entire family that he’s living with is listed as Black except for him but in other years before and after, they’re listed as white.
A few more notes, they lived in a very small, isolated valley settlement in Appalachian Tennessee and I believe that the family had only arrived a few decades before but I haven’t had the chance to continue my research that far yet.
Does anyone with more experience than me have any information or knowledge about this apparent discrepancy in census taking during this time period?
My understanding is that he left the family. But nobody knew anything about him or cared to know. All those relatives (great uncles and aunts) are now passed away. I will be damned if I can find a single detail about him once he left the family. There is rumor that he may have been a railroad worker, but I have not found evidence of this, although his brother Michael did work for the New York Central Railroad, out of Chicago.
I have found his brothers, who all immigrated here too, and all of their family info. He had three brothers who also immigrated to the US and all seemed to live in the Chicago and surrounding areas. They were Frank, Philip and Michael.
Is it possible or likely that he returned to Croatia? His birth name is Grga Draganic and his American name was Gregory. The last name was sometimes spelled Draganich. Born 1881
Curiously, in the 1920 census, he is listed as Joseph. Not sure if there was some error or if he was going by an assumed name.
I have spent countless hours on this, and learned a bit of Latin and Croatian to decipher thousands of pages of old church books to nail down all his family members. I even located a living cousin, in Croatia, as a result.
At any rate, I am stumped as can be on him.
I found the 1920 census for some of my ancestors and I can't read the city that is says they are from. I know the husband was born in Przemysl, Austria, but this doesn't look like it says Przemysl.
Hi, I'd like to know the proportion of immigrants living in a smallish town in New York using the 1910 and 1920 Census records. I use the modern Census tables a lot to look at immigrant populations and other facts, but I can't seem to find anything like that for past censuses. Is there anything like that or would I have to count it out myself?
Hello All,
I have a bit of a long shot request here - my wife's great grandfather was born somewhere in the Slovak region of Austria-Hungary in 1886. He emigrated to the United states in 1903, and we managed to find census data from 1920 and 1940. Attached are the images from those census pages. We're really trying to figure out what city or region he may be from, but I'm having trouble making any sense of the writing.
The one from 1920 looks like it may me Lubotin (left-most column), while the one from 1940 looks like Clueleo to me, but that obviously can't be right. Would anyone happen to have any suggestions? I appreciate you taking the time to have a look in advance.
Edit:. Amazing response, thank you so much! The 1940 text looks like some variation of Chzechoslovakia, thanks!
Edit 2: Added another image from a found draft registration card. Does Luckn make any sense?
