As beautiful as their script handwriting was back then, I have a heck of a time reading it! When I'm transcribing original documents, I come up with the weirdest names, thinking *surely* this is not really a name! Maybe the transcribers develop an eye for it after awhile, but I can sure see how mistakes happen, in the original entry, when it's at the end of the day and the clerk is ready to go home, and years later when some poor soul is trying to read his writing! ENG110@aol.com wrote: > > That is true, while doing some lookups for DuPage Co. with their marriage > listings, I have found that sometimes the names does not show up on the State > listings, it's rare but it has happned, vice versa. > > I thought the DuPage listings were extracted from the states but some how a > few might have been missed. Possible that the marriage was never sent in to > the state from the county. > > The spellings of names is sometimes enough to make you pull your hair out, > case in point was the name Backard, looked all over everything and the name > did not appear, then I looked at the marriages under the spouses name, they > married a Packard ! > Everything was under the Packard name, not Backard. > > Cidney