In message <011801c460de$a5e0dd00$db646b51@patriot>, Janice Aitkens1 <janice.aitkens1@ntlworld.com> writes >Hello >I got this on another list & thought it may be why we don't always find the >men we looking for. > >At the time of the 1901 Census, a lot of men were in the armed forces, >serving in South Africa in the Boer War A simpler solution is that they were badly transcribed. My TINDILL family were transcribed as TZNDILL. It took me ages to find them, and then only because my grandfather had a very unusual Christian name. John -- John Rouse