Chris Jefferies wrote: 8>< > It seems that the error dated back 20 years to when I transcribed the family > entry in a census from the film in Gloucester library during the 1980s. The > first letter of the name was difficult to decipher and I had never heard of > Zippora as a name and Suppora seemed best sounding solution. In subsequent > census I obviously remembered this unusual name and didn't carefully examine > how the name was spelt. I think a lot of us make mistakes in our early years of researching or when we move into a new area of research, as you've illustrated. When I first started, I found a relative who was born in St Saviour. The only place of that name I knew of was on Jersey. It was a while before I discovered that it was a parish in south London which made a lot more sense <G> -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton and Greinton, SOM Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk