The computers proved too complex for some temporary workers who tried to use them in a test last year in North Carolina. Also, the computers were not initially programmed to transmit the large amounts of data necessary.
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Paper kills!!!!
But seriously. I’m excited by this due to playing around on Ancestry.com.
There is something a little magical about a paper record with the names of people, their occupations, and family members encoded every ten years. You can learn so much by looking at the pages around someone: their neighbors, trends in occupation, where they were born. It is amazing.
Of course, we lost most of the 1880 census in a fire, so it’ll be good to have a backup these days. đŸ˜‰