In doing a genealogical study of my family, I found the US census from 1900-1930 absolutely unreliable. The 1900 census had misspellings, wrong names and even different names (both wrong) on subsequent pages. The 1930 census even had a question mark in the middle of my families name!
Yes, sir.
And today with history recorded in electronic format? What do you think the accuracy will be in the future.
In the past the literate could read and write.
It was all in cursive or in printed letters. (before typewriters)
A friend tells me of reading the S. Carolina census of that period. The names were quite colorful.
Of course we now have Laquizhsa, which is quite colorful in its own right but the names of yore couldn’t make it past censors