A great story! Most of my grandparents & siblings gave wrong info re age & arrival in US. I can just see my grandmother trying to cook dinner in a cramped apartment with 3 crying babies and this census taker plying her with questions about her arrival, husband's arrival, their birthdays, etc. The most interesting error is my 2 1/2 yr old Uncle Julian who somehow became my sweet little Aunt Lilian....didn't know they could do that sort of operation back then....:^) Joe, western PA armata@vms.cis.pitt.edu - 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