In a message dated 6/17/2005 1:00:32 AM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Overall, whoever did the transcribing really did well considering some of the pages they had to work with. very true. My grandmother's name is Estelle and it was transcribed as "Castle". Or my mother-in-law's people all have Norwegian names: Bernhart M. became Bernhardin when transcribed. Of course then there is the other problem- my mil's grandfather was Christian but he went by Christ which is what appears on the census. I accidently found him on the same page as one of his children because I was looking for Christian. Valerie