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    1. Re: [GEN-NYS] Marguerite Yakel / Yakal
    2. Try seaching each census year by first name, birth year, birth location and county or town. You will have to sort through a lot of results, but narrow the search by as many factors as you can. Broaden the search if you don't get results. Try alternate spellings of Marguerite. This was how I finally found my George Van Driesen family in the 1850 census for Syracuse, NY. The handwritting was so ban, the index showed the last name as "Vandewer". Most of the first names were also indexed wrong. I finally hit paydirt with the first name/birth year/birth state of one of George's children. You might also try variations of Yakel/Yakal substituting 'G' for 'Y', etc., and using only the initial 'M' in place of Marguerite. Also try indexes from different sources--ancestry.com, genealogy.com, heritagequest, etc.

    01/07/2007 06:03:04