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    1. [GREEN] hello everyone
    2. Have not posted in a while and just wanted to update you on the Eshiela Green that I have been searching so very hard for. And my experience in reading census images. A month ago I subscribed to ancestry.com. I have already in my files a census image with the name Eshiela Green b. to Edward Green and Sarah Ann Dale. But wanted to double check her name, something kept at me about doing that and now I am glad I listened to my gut. I took a closer look and this is the story. Census images at a glance can give off the wrong spelling of a name. With the scriptive way they wrote then (which is beautiful) I am now looking twice at all enteries. As with myself and other researchers just glancing at her name it took like it was Eshiela. Read on this is interesting. While looking at the image I zoomed in on her name and much to my surprise it was not Eshiela. Her brother George was written above her name and the g in his name made it look like an h in her name right where the m began. Which made it look like Eshiela. In fact it was not Eshiela, it was Emilie. So I printed the zoomed image for my records and made a note of this. My husband looked at it also and agreed with me that it could not be Eshiela. I also showed this image to a couple of my friends and they all said right off the bat oh thats Emilie. I really like the name Eshiela, and hopefully when one of my granddaughters is born that will be her name, quite the story to tell her. So now I am looking for an Emilie Green b. 1863 possibly in Buffalo Co., Wisconsin, she did marry and I did have that info but did not think it was her so I tossed it, the birth year was right, and location was right, but I was stuck on her name being Eshiela, boooo on me. Smile, we live and learn. Hopefully this lesson that I have gone through will help others. I have found that reading census images is vital in family research, especially from 1850 to now because they list family members, and locations. I have found them very good for tracking migration patterns. But thats a whole nother story. Hopefully someone has this Emilie in their files, hope to hear from you real soon. Leona R Greene to be human is to error, even with census images.

    01/15/2002 08:22:27