Remember the information on census (and for that matter most documents) is not to be taken as the whole truth and nothing but the truth! My great grandfather is listed as the head of household on the 1920 census. What is so unusual about that you might ask? Well he died in 1916. And I have proof of that because I contacted the funeral home and they provided me with a bill for the funeral and the date the grave was dug (there is no tombstone fo him) in 1916. I just imagine my great grandmother sitting there with the census taker, herself not speaking English real well, being asked if she was married. So to her this would be a yes/no question. So as a mother of 10 children the only possible choice was "yes". So the census taker assumed he was still alive and when asking questions as to name, age, occupation she answered them for when he was alive. Joanne Central PA >Hi, I am having the same problem. He also said on the census that he was >Naturalized and I can't find records of that either. He didn't tell my >father his village name, only Galicia, A-H Empire. No talking in the family >apparently as we don't know anything at all. jo > > > > >At 12:50 PM 4/8/97 -0400, you wrote: >>I've often jokingly said that it is so hard to find information about my >>immigrant grandfather >>that it was almost as if he deliberately tried to hide. Maybe it's not such a >>joke! >> >> > >