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From: "Cheryl Freeman" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Regarding married names
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:43:21 -0500
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I can see it too. Which is why I am going to get the film - to actually see
what is there. Ancestry's census search feature has indexed it as Tow, Low,
Towe, Tone, and probably more that I have not found :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:] On
> Behalf Of Teresa Elliott
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 1:39 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [TMG] Regarding married names
>
> I can see how the transcriptionist got Tune. Os and Us are often
> interchanged, and a W and a cursive N, often look alike. The l on the
> end
> may have looked like a cursive E.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:] On
> Behalf
> Of Cheryl Freeman
> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 8:38 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [TMG] Regarding married names
>
> Teresa,
>
> I agree on this. Although I do not normally record all variants, there
> are
> instances where I must do so. I am now researching Eliza whose married
> name
> is Jones. Her maiden name written on the back of any old photo of
> uncertain provenance is "Tyler". Her death certificate gives her
> maiden
> name as "Case". Death certificates of her children give her maiden
> name as
> "Towel" or "Towell". Two transcriptions of Buncombe County, NC
> marriage
> books give her maiden name respectively as "Tune?" and "Tow". From
> census
> work I have done, Tow is probably the correct name and I hope that the
> microfilm of the marriage book will provide the needed information.
> However, I am recording all variants with sources so that identify any
> other
> records where she might be incorrectly named, and later to properly
> evaluate
> evidence and form a conclusion.
>
> Cheryl
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [mailto:] On
> > Behalf Of Teresa Elliott
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 5:29 PM
> > To:
> > Subject: Re: [TMG] Regarding married names
> >
> > That is what I do. I disagree with Terry about recording the name as
> it
> > is
> > found in the source. I am researching Susan Markum who may have had
> > children
> > with Bill Blaylock.
> >
> > I have seen the names Markham, Markhum, Markhem, Markum, Markam,
> > Markem,
> > (Well you get the idea). And Blaylock, Blaylark, Blaylight, Bullock,
> > and
> > even Black. I need to be able to find that record again at some date
> > and
> > recording the name as it was recorded is the only way to do so. I
> have
> > no
> > idea how Susan and Bill would have recorded their own names, since
> > neither
> > could read. So I have name tags for every type of record and record
> > the
> > name as that record showed it. I can chose to use those name tags or
> > not,
> > but I choose to use them as recorded. And then as you say, source
> that
> > name
> > tag so that I can find the source it came from again. Or in Susan's
> > case,
> > not came from since I can't seem to find her in any records beyond
> the
> > 1880
> > census.
>
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