Shown twice in the 1870 census

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I don't know what to use as a source and can use some advice please......

I found my family twice in the 1870 census. First one was done on the 15th of July and they were living in one Election District in the Bronx. I also found them from the census done on 17th of December that same year living in a different Election District in the same city.
It was very helpful though because it narrowed down their birth month and some member got jobs while others no longer worked.

Thanks
HEIDI

[Anne Chambers]

I don't see your problem - show them both. Obviously, they moved between July and December.

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Anne Chambers
South Australia

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With the information given it is not at all obvious that they moved. I've found at least one case where, apparently, several families were living on the boundary of a district and got shown in both districts.

[Margaret Olson]

They were probably physically where they were recorded both
times. The dates are far enough apart that they may have moved. I'm
surprised at a December date for a census report. I wonder why it
was done so late. Or was this a state or local census? You about
have to use both as sources and try to explain the differences in other ways.

I have a similar thing for 1880, though the records make it clear
which was the place I should record as being their home.

On June 5, 1880 my great-grandfather as a 3-year old child is
recorded with his parents and no siblings in Clark County Ohio in his
father's household - and his mother's parents were recorded next door.
On June 10/11 1880 he and his parents and a 1-year old sibling were
recorded in Sedgwick County Kansas in the household of his father's
parents (who had moved there earlier that year).
Assumption: Their residence was Ohio. They visited grandparents in
Kansas less than a week later.
Question: the sibling (born in 1878) missing in the Ohio record was
not next door at his grandparents' house (according to their census
record) and was listed as a year old less than a week later in
Kansas. He was actually born in 1878. Where was he? Was the census
taker sloppy?
Question: In 1880 how long would it take to get from Springfield,
Ohio (just west of Columbus) to a town near Wichita, Kansas? It was
probably near a direct railroad route. One day - maybe 2?

Margaret