In a message dated 11/9/2000 7:22:50 AM Pacific Standard Time, hhooper@wa-net.com writes: << My great great grandfather, Andrew Frasier (family spelling for three generations) was listed on four census reports that I have found and they are Frazier, Frasier, and Frazer. >>> Oooh, those census enumerators! They were independent spellers, all right. The fact that the name was not spelled in the way the family seems to have preferred may mean that the enumerators did not find the family at home and had to depend on neighbors for information. That in turn would mean that the information recorded is even more unreliable than the usual census stuff. More anon, Ginny