Sure looks like my guy. Many thanks Lori. Lou Ann In a message dated 7/11/10 8:21:29 AM, lori_lovelace@charter.net writes: > If you look at the 1880 census record for James Franklin, there is a son > James that is 5 months old with a birth date of Dec 1879. > > If you look at the 1910 census record for James Franklin (30 years later), > there is a son Newton that is 30 years old.  It looks like this is the > same > son so I suspect his full name is James Newton.  > > I have run into this issue quite often where the census record will use > the > first name one year and the middle (or common name) the next year >