I just experienced, again, how a census taker can record information they think they hear and erroneously write it - making it difficult for us to find the person many years later. I have been researching the Seagraves/Segraves/Cegraves families of Allen & Warren Co. I have hunted for years for Daniel Hall Segraves 1855-1927 in the 1910 Census. I used soundex searches, including substituting the "S" for an "L" since in old fashioned handwriting styles the two letter look similar. The 1900 census was easy as just a surname search in Warren Co revealed only one family - David H. Seagraves - Daniel and David are often misinterpreted. The 1910 census was more difficult. Soundex searches, and given name searches for David b. 1855, Daniel b. 1855, and even searches for his wife as Bettie and Elizabeth did not present any results. They had no children so searching for the children's first names was not an option. Knowing that Daniel's sister-in-law Lucinda Robertson was living with the couple in 1900, I decided to see if she was still living in 1910 and resorted to a search for her. Waa - laa. Up came Lucinda Robertson in the household of Daniel C. Graves - the census taker interpreted the first syllable of the surname as an initial. Moral to the story - don't give up. Does anyone else have a "brick wall" story to share? Sharon Tabor List Administrator ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com