Jean and List: All great minds must think alike!<g> It was just this weekend past that my husband suddenly said, "What if he was in the Boer War?" I nearly fell over - I had never thought of that. There is no family tradition that says he was, but he is not at home with the wife and kids, and he is not anywhere in the country under any spelling of the name!! By Jove! I think you've got it!! Sher in Ontario, Canada At 05:54 AM 9/26/2002 -0400, you wrote: >Hello to all. > >Whilst searching in vain for various male ancestors whom I knew were alive >in the 1901 census, it suddenly dawned on me that they would have been in >South Africa fighting in the second Boer War (1899-1902). It might be >worth bearing this in mind when searching for ancestors at this time and >could quite well account for their absence at the time of the census.I >hope this helps. > >Kind regards > >Jean garforth > > >==== ENG-EAST-YORKS Mailing List ==== >LOST? please use the "Where is it in Yorkshire?" index >http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/Where/index.html >The Maintainer of the Genuki Yorkshire pages is Colin Hinson > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237