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We are so used to sharing information with other researchers in this country we forget to allow you may not be familiar with our records.
Beginning with our federal census in 1880 the record not only asks where the person was born, but where father and mother were born, also. So, KS would be where Frank was born, Ger where his father was born, and WI [Wisconsin] where his mother was born. Some errors depend on who answered the door that day. I chuckle when I see the first time a second younger wife shows up on a census. She often gets all the information her husband and his family and even her step children all wrong.
I heard stories of my father growing up in Utah. I was old enough a census enumerator would have taken information from me when I suddenly learned my father was born in Oregon. Seems Grandma decided they should move from Utah to Oregon. Too much rain and Grandpa couldn't get enough work, so they moved back to Utah. In the mean time my father was born in OR, the only one in his family. So, you might have seen census records with birth location for my father as Oregon, except the one where I "might" have answered the door and said Utah. Occasionally information on a family was obtained from a neighbor. Occasionally it was noted in the margin, but when everyone in the household has big errors in their info you can bet it didn't come from the family themselves.
I have a family in Nebraska with names and ages that almost match, and rest of the columns are blank, except for the hired hand, his were all filled in. The enumerator wrote across the blank columns the family were all ill with small pox. The healthy field hand was probably working out doors near the road when the enumerator stopped by that day and the hand did the best he could because the enumerator wouldn't go up to the house. Can't blame him. LOL
Happy Hunting (^_^)
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