> ------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Re: [ARSHARP] ENDSLEY chatter > Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 14:11:05 EST > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > Jean > > Why would Melissa Caroline use a different name? Maybe she went by Caroline > but I have read that they were instructed to give their first name on census? > Could it be that simple? > Marcia > > ______________________________ > > > Subject: Re: [ARSHARP] ENDSLEY chatter > Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 06:31:26 -0500 > From: Jean Mayfield Cuevas <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > Marcia, > > Doesn't seem like her name would be different from one time to another, > unless someone else gave the information (which I understand happened a lot). > > Jean C. Marcia and Jean, I have an ancestor in Sharp County named Lucinda Adeline Craig. In one census, she was listed as L.A. In another she was Lucinda A and in another she was Adeline. She went by Adeline in her mature life. I think that she was called Adeline, but when the census taker asked for her name, the whole name was given and that is how Lucinda A got in there. Perhaps that is what happened to Melissa Caroline. Anne

Thanks, Anne. Probably a good idea never to rule anything out completely! :) Jean Cuevas At 08:43 AM 11/8/01 -0600, you wrote: >Marcia and Jean, >I have an ancestor in Sharp County named Lucinda Adeline Craig. In one >census, she was >listed as L.A. In another she was Lucinda A and in another she was >Adeline. She went by >Adeline in her mature life. I think that she was called Adeline, but when >the census taker >asked for her name, the whole name was given and that is how Lucinda A got >in there. > >Perhaps that is what happened to Melissa Caroline. > >Anne