Being (Slightly) Less Cautious about Birth Year Matching across Censuses

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Room A-12 • 9am

This class will describe recent research on how people have historically reported their birth year on
decennial US censuses. It will make the case to slightly widen the range of reported birth years we
consider when trying to connect people across censuses.


Tommy Morgan

Tommy Morgan leads a team of research assistants in the Record Linking Lab (rll.byu.edu). His team focuses on linking people across the U.S. censuses. Tommy is from Ogden, Utah and has been a family history consultant for over 6 years.