The first were poorly done. The workers may have decided to skip a particular area. If people did not come to the door, they did not come back.
Genealogists and other researchers often notice that no two censuses schedules are exactly alike. For example, in the first census taken in 1790, enumerators asked for the name of the head of the family and the number of persons in each household that fit the following categories: free white males over age sixteen, free white males under sixteen, free white females, all other free persons, and slaves.
The census never asked for birth dates, names.. the info people look for in genealogy until later times. Even in the later census the workers only write down what the people who come to the door tell them and NO documentation is given.
You can not put any thing in the bank that you read from a census and of course you can find nothing about any relative from the census before 1790 because the government did not take a census.
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