This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IM0.2ACEB/542.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Wasn't Josiah Meadows (whose wife was named Lavinia Moody) father named Jonas Meador? Is this the same Josiah Meadow? It has been explained to me that often the Meadow/Meador names were confused and mistaken or taken for each others. When census workers took down information they took it as it sounded to them maybe some took Meadow for Meador and vice versa. Especially since alot of people in that era were illiterate ( Not saying Josiah was) just they couldn't correct the census taker if they couldn't spell well enough for themselves. I have seen ages wrong when I know someone was 38 in 1917 and then in the 1920 census they are only 30. So it depends alot on census takers and how they wrote names and gathered data.