Abbott and Costello had a routine that was almost as good as “Who’s on first.” Abbott explains how he got a job at a bakery as a loafer. When Costello claims he was loafing too, Abbott says you must join the Loafers Union. They give you Dough that you Knead to Loaf. Costello hears that you Need mMoney to be Lazy. It’s one of my favorite of their routines. See URL at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRs37ugCxyM

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Why are not later census’ available?
Two things: I’m 71 now, and all my life my grandfather on my mom’s side was “Duard”. Lately I found out his name was “Durward” according to his birth certificate. Among other papers I also find him as Darward. However, the census had him as “Buraard”. I can only guess – the census taker didn’t hear it correctly, the person giving the info slurred it, or ??. The second thing is my grandparents on my dad’s side had 5 daughters before they had him. They called all the girls boy’s names. My aunt Dixie they called “Dick”, and so on. On the census she is listed as “Dick” and as a boy. I cannot tell you how many people online have an extra boy in my dad’s family. So of course they named my dad “Connie”.
My mother took the Census in the 1950’s, and one of her entries recorded twins named Ureter and Urethra. One can imagine the illiterate mother giving birth in a hospital and asking the person who delivered them for suggestions for names.
In the 1880 census in Pleasant Valley, Iowa, there are two men named Hans Lage, each with a wife named Christina. (The spelling varies.) They each have a number of children, with similar names. It took a long while to get it all straight, but I do know now I am descended from one of them and a friend of mine from high school is descended from the other. We have never been able to determine how the two Hans’ were related to each other in Schleswig-Holstein, but believe they must have been uncle and nephew somehow. Not really as humorous as it is amazing and amusing.
When do the census records from 1950 and 1960 become available? And I am on a fixed income, but I love research and your colorizing feature make the yearly fee worthwhile. Hopefully the colorizing feature will be upgraded soon. It occasionally leaves out color in spots and some colors are wrong.
My dad, in 1960, was asked by a census worked what his maiden name was.
Possibly the “loafer” worked in a bakery? An old Abott & Costello joke…
To extend search of lamon with relatives later living in illinois north of Chicago Evanston
Big deal! US census data has always been free and accessible.
I’m looking for information aboult my famyly in America name
KrobanThank you
please keep me informed
Fun seeing what people put down on the census about family members. Makes you wonder what your family members would have really liked to have entered.
Very interesting, I will subscribe very soon.
what do you know?
Looking for Karen Bentzen born in New Jersey in 1934–her mother was Else Bentzen and her father was Edmund Carl Bentzen; both immigrants from Denmark
Rod Corkum
April 5, 2020
The one on loafing reminds me of this Abbot and Costello routine which your reader might like. Did you know it was a real job? It’s a scream.
http://youtu.be/Q_TGQ7rGL-Q