<<Interestingly enough, the data on this card does not correspond to other data that I have.>> Many of us have run into the same discrepancies. <<For example, it is dated 1917, and he lists a wife and child. He had three of his five children by that date.>> He may not have filled the form out himself and it might have been sufficient just to list child instead of children. If he didn't speak English very well perhaps the person who was listening to him give the answers only heard child. <<It also lists his employer as Diamond Alkali (which was the largest employer in the town from about 1912 to 1978), but on his retirement notice in 1957, it said he began working there in 1921, and the 1920 census lists his employer as the B&O railroad (they had a large yard in the town, a block from Orchard Street).>> I can think of a lot of explanations for the above. He may have worked at Diamond Alkali, quite, was let go, there was a strike and so on and then he went back later...1921. In the meantime he worked for the Railroad. <<Birth date is now the third version that I have. (all 1888)>> You didn't mention where the other versions came from....what documents. I wouldn't worry too much about it. Have you found a passenger manifest with him on it? Though keep in mind, the name of the place our immigrants came from isn't always the village he was born in. For you, if I am correct in that you want to locate his exact place of birth, it is more important to find the name of the village then perhaps you can find him on Hungarian records. <<I guess it could have been a language barrier, as I doubt that he spoke very much English. He didn't right up to his death in 1975.>> Many of our ancestors were content with knowing only a few words. Elizabeth V. Cardinal evc1369@comcast.net