In a message dated 12/2/2003 9:12:10 AM Mountain Standard Time, RCBDJR@aol.com writes: > In the L-127 file we have Stewart marrying a Hannah Jones in 1798, thus the > > estimated > birth year for Stewart of 1778. However, the various census years we have > for Stewart > show him to be younger......1784-1790 birthyear range. Perhaps, the Stewart > > who > married Hannah is not the Stewart of L-127....... The unfortunate fact is that we can't even count on a U. S. Census to be accurate. I had an interesting experience while checking out on my paternal grandmother, Jessie H. E. White. I wanted to find a birthdate and perhaps some information on her father. Checking on a New York City census, which was where the Whites lived at the time (it was, I believe, the 1870 census), I found Jessie's mother, Elizabeth White, with no trouble. It listed her as being born in Ireland, as I already knew. But I had to laugh, since my grandmother was listed as a male named Jesse H. E. White! The census taker had apparently taken the information from Great-Granny and had misspelled "Jessie" and then later on had assumed that this was a male when the data were processed. He wouldn't have made the mistake if he'd gotten Grandma's full name: Jessie Hope Elizabeth. Doris Stanford (L-130B) (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr