Estimates of Census Underenumeration Based on Genealogies

Author(s)

John W. Adams, University of South Carolina - ColumbiaFollow
Alice Bee Kasakoff

Document Type

Article

Subject Area(s)

Anthropology

Abstract

We have been studying the migrations of the descendants of nine men who came to Massachusetts before 1650 and have compiled a computerized database that includes all the people born before 1860 in the patrilines. Thus we have what the nine genealogists who studied these families thought was close to a complete list of family members alive in 1850. Here we focus on our attempts to find these individuals on the 1850 federal census.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0145553200021283

Publication Info

Social Science History, Volume 15, Issue 4, Winter 1991, pages 527-543.

APA Citation

Adams, J., & Kasakoff, A. (1991). Estimates of Census Underenumeration Based on Genealogies. Social Science History, 15(4), 527–543. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0145553200021283

Rights

© Social Science History 1991, Cambridge University Press.