In a message dated 12/3/02 1:57:29 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << That problems is solved. Here is the problem, based on the 1920 and 1930 census: >> Could it be that the 1930 census taker said to Charley or Ethel...."what are the names and ages of your children?", instead of " what are the names and ages of everyone LIVING IN THE HOUSEHOLD?" Maybe Charley or Ethel took him literally if he didn't mention "living in the household"???? They wouldn't necessarily have remembered from 10 yrs previous, what exactly the census taker needed to know. Just a thought about how that could have happened. Lyde