"Dennis Lee Bieber" <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > > John Kantzer fed this fish to the penguins: > > > Now that's one I wouldn't have thought of. Dieber. > > Yeah... and since the first letter is critical in soundex > lookup, I subsequently went through checking of Fieber, Kieber, and > Rieber (assuming a misread B in transcription: lose the middle bar > give D, lose the curves and bottom for F, top and bottom for K, and > bottom for R)... Fortunately (?) I didn't find anymore oddities. > > I was expecting variations like Biber, Beeber, Bibber.. My recent experience suggests that you need to be even more creative - examples: My wife's maternal grandfather ' Maurice D. PHILLIPS' was twice enumerated as 'Morris' (which is how his daughter and granddaughter pronounce it), and in one case was enumerated as 'Morris B.'. I had already found my wife's paternal Ggrandmother, 'Georgianna DEMAR' in the 1880 census in a page by page search, prior to the LDS index being put up. Couldn't find her in the Index. Lucky for my sanity, she was living with her mother and step-father, 'Benjamin RICHARDSON', who I was able to find. In the household was 'Georgianna LEMON' and her sister Susanna LEMON. i.e. Demar=>Lemon (Note: 1870 census identified her as 'George' and Male). LOL; Dave "Dave" <barbara-dave@att.net>