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From: "Jeannie" <>
Subject: Re: Fw: [OHCEN] 1920 / Unknown Co / FREECE, Frank
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:16:38 -0500
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Subject: Re: Fw: [OHCEN] 1920 / Unknown Co / FREECE, Frank
Thanks for the thought Jeannie
I think it 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 <<<
I totally agree!!!
Also in the 1920 Census in Hancock Co., OH, I could not
locate my gr.grandfather with last name LUCAS in the index
at Ancestry.com . . . needless to say, I had to try to find him
page-by-page. Luckily, I knew the area in which he lived &
located him easily -- mostly because I could tell what the name
should look like!! So, then I wondered what they had him
indexed as . . . In the advanced search, I put in the state, county,
birthplace, & age and came up with a long list of possibilities.
I found that the transcriber must not have been able to read the
enumerator's handwriting -- he was listed as "LONAS, Jacob"!!!
I tried to tell Ancestry about the mistake & all they could do
about it was to tell me to put a comment next to his name in
the index -- OH, BROTHER!! :-) Jeannie.Fleck
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