Renee, Was the name spelled the same on the actual census form as it was on the index.  I do not have access to ancestry but do use two other databases, one did not have census for 1900 Al, could not come up with name De Grew in the other. Meawhile I ran across this listing on family search: http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#surname=degruy&p=recordResults&searchType=close&collection=fs%3A1307888 Bill ________________________________ From: Degruy List Administrator <listadministratordegruyl@earthlink.net> To: GEN DEGRUY Mailing list at Rootsweb <degruy@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sat, June 19, 2010 5:44:17 PM Subject: [DEGRUY] Mobile cousins with names misspelled in census Yesterday uploaded to website the 1900 census of our DeGruy cousins in Mobile...with all 9 people in the household identified... and all with their names misspelled De Grew. See why it's so darn hard to do genealogical research?????? R This is a "discussion" list. Individual messages cannot be assumed to be "fact."  All data should be verified. Be Generous. Share Your Family Research. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DEGRUY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

when you say de gruy it sounds like de grew ancestry.com 1920 Alabama Mobile, ward 5 1920 spelling is correct, Joseph De Gruy 7 family members, I don't think anyone saw how the census taker was writing their names down. Baldwin, AL 1880 census has a Joseph De Gruy bn 1850, brother On Jun 19, 2010, at 9:58 PM, William Richardson wrote: > Renee, > Was the name spelled the same on the actual census form as it was on > the index. I do not have access to ancestry but do use two other > databases, one did not have census for 1900 Al, could not come up > with name De Grew in the other. Meawhile I ran across this listing > on family search: > > http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#surname=degruy&p=recordResults&searchType=close&collection=fs%3A1307888 > > Bill > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Degruy List Administrator <listadministratordegruyl@earthlink.net > > > To: GEN DEGRUY Mailing list at Rootsweb <degruy@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sat, June 19, 2010 5:44:17 PM > Subject: [DEGRUY] Mobile cousins with names misspelled in census > > Yesterday uploaded to website the 1900 census of our DeGruy cousins in > Mobile...with all 9 people in the household identified... and all with > their names misspelled De Grew. > See why it's so darn hard to do genealogical research?????? > R > > This is a "discussion" list. Individual messages cannot be assumed > to be "fact." All data should be verified. > Be Generous. Share Your Family Research. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DEGRUY-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > This is a "discussion" list. Individual messages cannot be assumed > to be "fact." All data should be verified. > Be Generous. Share Your Family Research. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DEGRUY-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message