“Just Your Place on Planet Earth Please…”

The doorbell just rang. On answering the door, a gentleman handed me a sheet of paper, informed me he was with the 2010 Census, stepped back from under the overhang of my front porch and took a GPS reading of where he stood. He commented that he had to get out from under the porch and the tree just to the side of my walk to get a reading. It looked to me like he was attempting to get as close to the front door as possible for the GPS reading.

Before leaving, the gentleman remarked that they were getting GPS coordinates on every dwelling in America, and that he didn’t have to do it all by himself – that he had help. He mentioned that as of today Bountiful, Utah is about 3/4 done.

I’d read in the paper that they were going to be doing this, and verifying addresses for the census forms that will be mailed to us.

Following is the English side of the paper he handed me…
2010 census notice

About Leland Meitzler

Leland K. Meitzler founded Heritage Quest in 1985, and has worked as Managing Editor of both Heritage Quest Magazine and The Genealogical Helper. He currently operates Family Roots Publishing Company (www.FamilyRootsPublishing.com), writes daily at GenealogyBlog.com, writes the weekly Genealogy Newsline, conducts the annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour to the Family History Library, and speaks nationally, having given over 2000 lectures since 1983.

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