I got mine too. Filled it out. I put we are american indian from the Choctaw Nation, as we are. The only thing I did not fill out was my phone #. They don’t need that. My mother does geneology and she says these questions are normal.
Normal for whom?
Phone number is just in case they have to clarify something or make an appointment to come to your home.
I found it to be rather easy and there were no income
questions. They did ask if there was clear home ownership or rental, etc.
I thought that unnecessary.
I plan on checking off “native american”. I mean I WAS born here.
It’s funny. Every generation puts down different things. The first Americans (Puritans) for many years only put down how many in household. Then they started putting down how man of each sex, for instance 3 males between age 10 and 20.
The census ledgers have names across on a line. They do ask occupation, if you could read or write English, and what country or state you and your parents were born in. Also name and age, age at marriage, and occupation, and how many in school. In the thirties they asked if you had a radio.
Now they ask race instead of country of origin. The big difference is, a hundred years ago people trusted the government, they knew they weren’t going to have their lives interfered with. All that ended with FDR. Suddenly people started to think “1984”.