Twins, finally!

I've been indexing the 1940 census since the first day, and I've just run across my first set of twins in the census: Chester and Lester Stout, age 17, from Porter Twp, Wagoner, Oklahoma. (ED 73-14, sheet 5-A, lines 32-33.) The fun of indexing to me is turning the dry facts into little stories in my head... Actually that's the fun of genealogy in general.

At this point I've indexed over 900 names from this census, and the fact that this is the first set makes me wonder about the incidence of twins in that day and age. Granted I wouldn't be able to tell about older twins unless they were still living together into adulthood, but I thought there would be more. I thought I had found a pair a few days ago, but then realized that in fact those 16-year-olds were actually married to each other! (And still living with his parents, to boot.)