This week Kenyatta D. Berry, author of The Family Tree Toolkit, and host of PBS' Genealogy Roadshow speaks with Data Historian and author Dan Bouk. The two discuss a critical part of all genealogy research - census records.
Items discussed in this episode:
Bureau of the Census, Negro Population 1790-1915 (1918) https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112004120298?urlappend=%3Bseq=8
Kelly Miller, “Enumeration Errors in Negro Population,” Scientific Monthly 14, no. 2 (1922): 168-177 https://www.jstor.org/stable/6436#metadata_info_tab_contents
Langston Hughes, "Madam and the Census Man" performed by Margaret Walker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40GyoFE6GAg
Tammy Hepps, "When Henry Silverstein Got Cold: Fraud in the 1920 Census," https://homesteadhebrews.com/articles/when-henry-silverstein-got-cold/
And as always, the music for this episode was "Good Vibe," by Ketsa.