CHenley29@aol.com wrote: --snip-- > Of course, an alternative > would be that their accents were heavy and the enumerator could not > understand the name of the child. All comments welcome. <smile> > > Charlotte I figure that's how my Uncle Adolph, pronounced Aw'duf, known as Audy, pronounced Aw'dee, showed up as Otto on a census. Heh. -- Loretta Iroquois County ILGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~iliroquo/ Ford County ILGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilford/ Iroquois County Genealogical Society http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilicgs/