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). Thanks about the "greats". I will keep my eyes open. Hopefully, something or someone will come along to shed some light on this question! Jean C. At 02:11 PM 11/7/01 -0500, you wrote: >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? > >Yes if William A. Wiles is your great great grandfather then John would be >your ggg uncle. > >I want to go back and look at the image of the 1910 census for Molissie and >see if that W for widow didn't look a little different that others on the >page. Maybe she is divorced. Don't be too surprised. I have divorce papers >from 1853 for one of my gggg grandmothers. It happened back then. We just >didn't talk about it <grin> > >Marcia