This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/REX.2ACIB/3842.1.1 Message Board Post: THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!! I know this is going to seem like a stupid question. I have stacks of actual census reports. I can't seem to find one for 188o. But what does it mean after Charles Male W 23 MA Laborer MA MA Dioes this mean Charles was born in MA, his father was born in MA, and his mother born in MA? and Edith M Demale W 8 M NY MA NY?? Dioes this mean Edith was born in NY her father in MA, and her mother in NY? You are so thoughtful. I am trying to find out if Charles and Belle has a son Bert J. Ford born on August 6, 1884. His WWII registration card lists him as Bert Ford Conley. I do not know if he is the child of Belle and Charles Ford or Oliver and Hannah Northrup Conley. I have been looking for Belle's name as I have seen it as both Bradley and Radley. But thank you again.