Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > > jsimons@childrensdefense.org fed this fish to the penguins: > > > In theory, this should work, but _only_ if the first letter of the > > surname was transcribed correctly! The surname in question, Riddle, > > could easily have been transcribed as Biddle. > > I can confirm that much... After a few days via the index to > the 1880 Census CD-ROMS, I'd still failed to locate a couple... > > It wasn't until I activated the "neighbors" mode in the > viewer and started scrolling through /all/ the families in the > township that I found the pair I'd been seeking. > > Bieber had been transcribed as Dieber... I was unable to find one particular Van Dalinda family (which had moved from New Jersey to Boston) until I searched on a daughter's first name only, Lavina being fairly rare. They were indexed as Candalindia (I read the entry as Vandalindia). The head's sister was living with her stepfather and mother in Paterson. She was indexed as Valenida (I read it as Vanlinda). I'm still unable to find this particular family in the 1860 census. Richard VanHouten <richvh@citlink.net>