Macedonians noted by country and language in US census, 1920!

[Daskalot]

Official census records from the United States census of 1920.

Please do notice the following:

NATIVITY AND MOTHER TONGUE.
Place of birth of each person and parents of each person enumerated. If born in the United States, give the state or territory. If of foreign birth, give the place of birth and, in addition the mother tongue. (See instructions.)

PERSON.
Place of birth. 19 Mother tongue. 20
FATHER.
Place of birth. 21 Mother tongue. 22
MOTHER.
Place of birth. 23 Mother tongue. 24

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As it is clearly stated in the fourteenth census of the United States 1920-population records, Macedonians speak Macedonian and come from Macedonia.

[Daskalot]

More information regarding this census from Macedonians acknowledged in US census, 1920!

Macedonians were noted in the census documentation.
Firstly in this document, “1920 Census: Instructions to Enumerators”

146. Principal foreign languages.—The following is a list of the principal languages which are likely to be reported as the mother tongue or language of customary speech of foreign-born persons:
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Lithuanian
Little Russian
Macedonian
Magyar
Montenegrin
Moravian (Czech.)
Norwegian
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See http://usa.ipums.org/usa/voliii/inst1920.shtml

Macedonians were again noted in this document “1920 Data Entry Operator’s Manual” both by birthplace, MACEDONIA and by language MACEDONIAN.

BIRTHPLACES - foreign
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LOR Lorraine
LUX Luxembourg
MAC Macedonia
MOR Moravia
MEX Mexico
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TONGUES
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LET Lettish
LIT Lithuanian
LRU Little Russian
MAC Macedonian
MAG Magyar
MEX Mexican
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See http://usa.ipums.org/usa/voliii/1920deom.shtml

[Soldier of Macedon]

Good stuff, there was a census conducted in Greece during the same year of 1920 where Macedonian is recorded as the mother tongue of a number of its citizens.

http://makedonika.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/macedonians-acknowleged-in-a-greek-census-from-1920/

Interesting how it coincides with the period of time in which the U.S census was also taken.

[Daskalot]

Thank you, these document are verbatim.

[TrueMacedonian]

MTO hits Macedonian Television

YouTube - 24 05 09 US census from 1920 confirm Macedonian ethnic identity

[Daskalot]

YouTube - 24 05 09 US census from 1920 confirm Macedonian ethnic identity

Wow, the Macedonian Truth reaches far, this is very good news, it must be the best newsreport I have ever watched on TV! :rmacedonia