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From: Rebecca Rector <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Deception on census
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 14:17:17 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <005301c87d50$295ee640$6101a8c0@hagankohler>


I have had a similar situation where a woman was listed on the census as the wife, even though she and her husband has formally separated (It's documented!) years before. The husband lived in a different state at the time of the census.
Rebecca

Bonnie Kohler <> wrote:
Janis Gilmore's question about would there have been a reason to lie about
having been born outside the U.S. in her 3/3/08 post with the subject line
"mid 1850's naturalization" reminded me of another instance of deception on
a census entry.

I came across a case of a man listing his deceased wife as his wife on a
census eight years after she passed away. I learned recently, by way of a
message board post, that the man had taken up with a married woman and
endeavored to conceal the relationship by listing his dead wife as his
housemate. It threw me though a loop because all of the other information
in the household, including the right-age and named daughter, seemed
appropriate. He had slightly changed the age of the wife and changed her
place of birth. I didn't think it impossible that the man had remarried to
a woman with the same name, but I was wary because the wife went by the
specific name of Libbie - not the more common names of Elizabeth, Beth, or
Bessie.

Bonnie Dunphy Kohler
Member, APG Florida Chapter






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Rebecca Rector, MLS
RbInfo Research
Troy, NY
www.rbinforesearch.com

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