So many errors - not always poor transcribing - . Enumerator may enter information on the wrong line - mis spell -even simple names. Black - becomes Blak - Block - Blake - and even Broke Julia / Juliana - could not be found - for years - and only found because of help from others - who researched through other family names - Found Julia - as Clininka - not a known given name anywhere - as well Ilushka. Clara - a second child - a daughter - in a family of 5 daughters - was shown as a son Carl. a brother James was born - years later One wonders about all the others -never found At 11:43 AM 24/06/2010, EVELYN WALLACE wrote: >Some of us are more clever at using search engines than others. I >have not quite mastered using wild cards [asterisks] for census >searches, but as illustrated by one subscriber to this list, they >can be quite useful in searching censuses. > >I suspected that my English great-grandmother, who had returned from >the USA to Bedfordshire after she was widowed, had some younger >siblings who were still living ca 1891. They were not in the >Suffolk village where their aging parents had lived and where their >youngest brother remained and operated the family tavern. > >So--I used the surname Holmes and the birthplace of Saxmundham as my >search terms. I had great luck!!! I surprised myself!!! The >siblings, many of them, were then living south of the Thames in what >was probably Kent. Each has an occupation, even the females. > >In the US, the problem is that the census-taker often misspelled the >surname, and the family gave the census taker a different first name >than the researcher knows. In my own lineage, the US census-taker >left off the final s in the surname Williams. My helper told me to >give her an unusual given name in the family, and with that, she was >able to get some results. But the mistake still remains--no final s >in Williams. > >E.W.Wallace > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >KENT-ENG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >the quotes in the subject and the body of the message