Hi everyone: Boy, this is about the busiest family list I ever been on! Its GREAT! Just a bit of trivia about an actual census taker's comments. Thought it applies to Phyllis' message. ============== TRIVIA in recognition of the dedicated Census Takers: Quote form a Logan County, Illinois Historical Society newsletter, with the original spelling preserved: "I am a census takers for the city of Bufflow.in 1865, it has become a hard and time consuming job to count all the peephill. There are not many than con do this werk, as it is nesassarie to have inejucashun, wich a lot of pursons still do not have. Anuther atribeart needed for this job is god spelling, for meny of the pephill.can harle speek inglish, let alon spel there names." Census Takers, thank God for each and every one! ================ Thank the Good Lord I have spell check! Harleigh Harleigh & Sandy Winkler sew@goldrush.com > That does not mean their name wasn't originally MAUPIN. Many of our > ancestors were illiterate and didn't even KNOW how their name was to be > spelled. It was up to the "officials" who could read and write to write it > down the way they thought it should be written. Of course, most of them > were not far ahead of the non-readers and writers, as they spelled > phonetically. Thus, you sometimes have different spellings of the same > name within the same family. > Snip > > Phyllis J. Bauer