When starting out in your research - after you have gathered up all the information around your house and talked to your relatives - the Census Reports can give you great "clues" to further your research. It can tell you the birth places and an estimated birth date. Whether they owned property and the people who lived in the house with them. Read each line carefully and jot down the information and the plan of where you can look to confirm that information. The reason it's considered a "clue" is we do not know who the information came from and if they really knew the answer to the questions. It could have been a neighbor, babysitter, friend, etc. And the person asking for the information, may not be able to spell the words correctly.
I found this comic strip at
http://geneapalooza.blogspot.com/ and thought it would explain how you need to take the Census information with a grain of salt or why you may have to dig a little deeper when you can't find one. Enjoy!
Happy hunting .....
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