72: Number of years individual census records are kept before they are
made public by the National Archives and Records Administration. In
2012, individual records from the 1940 Census will be made available
to the public for genealogical research.
If you subscribe to ancestry.com, then the "latest" census data is the
1930 census. This is a problem for geneologists because the mistakes
take so much time to resolve. In the 1930 census the taker entered my
mother's father and twin brother incorrectly:
Robert Minter Alexander was listed as Robert Minta Alexander
Peyton Alexander was listed as Paxton Alexander
If you do an exact search, then they will not be found. Surprised,
we did a "close-enough-for-gov't" search to find the errors.
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