> I was hoping for an itemized list of the things that could deduced > from the information quoted. > > Cheryl Singhals <[email protected]> Literally? Presuming the 1920 census was a door-to-door (vs the more modern snail mail with selected door-to-door sampling), I see two things: The census take was /told/ ...... Sometime after the entry had been made, someone made a "correction" to a field, putting in Magyar (which might even be questionable itself given an earlier description of the history of the region; it's a third-party assumption of what should have been entered). It might be safe to assume the family base is eastern Europe/western Russia (maybe south-eastern, given the Hungary reference)... What were the political boundaries like around 1880 (presuming the main individual is at least 20, emigrated at 5, and giving 20 years for the parents) -- no Poland, as I recall... -- bieber.genealogy Dennis Lee Bieber HTTP://home.earthlink.net/~bieber.genealogy/ Dennis Lee Bieber <[email protected]>