I understand people get worked up about the census...even God was against it.
However, I for one am glad my grandfather answered the questions for the 1910, ‘20 and ‘30 censuses.
And further, the Norwegian census of 1896, showed me that that same grandfather was a 16 year old seaman, that his grandmother had a daughter who was an unwed mother, and a boarder(?) who made beer! Which probably was the reason my grandmother’s righteous family didn’t want her to marry my sea-faring grandfather. All that from a few questions from a census.
From the 1920 census I learned that my grandfather, who was still on the seas in 1918, according to official documents, had bought a house and was employed as an engineer.
And from the 1930 census I learned that my father and his brother were young machinists.
Most of that information was unknown to me or my family, and it came from the answers to just a few questions; household occupants, name, age and occupation.
As I said, do what you want, but I hope my great-grandkids glean a little something from past censuses about me and my family.
I am truly glad that you have been able to find out more about your family. Really, I am. However, at what price for untold millions. We can’t even begin to fathom how this data has been used against the “collective us” - against freedom, against taxpaying citizens unknowingly..