What does Nehemiah 7:5 mean?

Then God put it on my heart to gather the leaders, the officials, and the people, so we could register everyone by family. I found the record of the first group who came back, and this is what was written there: Nehemiah 7:5 - Modern Text Bible

(Nehemiah felt led to organize a census, using an earlier list of those who had returned from exile, to help repopulate and organize the city.)