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Subject: Re: Fw: [OHCEN] 1920 / Unknown Co / FREECE, Frank
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 03:28:01 EST
Thanks for the thought Jeannie
I think ti quite possible that FREECE may look like TREECE on the census page
although I know that FREECE is the correct name
I know from having had to rack my brains for alternative spellings when
looking at English census entries and transcripts that you can't always trust
they will have been transcribed correctly by wither the original enumerator
or a later transcriber - I had a problem in locating my grandmother Mable
BRIGDEN on the 1901 census - her name was correct on the original but had
been transcribed as BRIDGEN and the family had appeared on the original of an
earlier census as BRIDGER - so it can get very confusing - you have to like a
challenge when researching. It is so easy to forget to look at other
possibilities and to remember that the people involved in compiling entries
and transcripts are only human
Helen
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