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Re: off topic: 1890 Chickasaw Nation cen, transcri

I only learned several years ago that the, "fire", was a deliberate destruction of the census returns of 1890.
Fortunately, for Oklahoma, the Twin Territories' returns were among the literal handful which survived. Why
the destruction occurred and who authorized it is unknown, at least to me. Thanks, for the reminder that
our area survived past the 1920's fire.

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