I completely agree. So the Roine / Royne connection must have come later in Nils's life (i.e., farm hand). Clark [email protected] wrote: > 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/hcC.2ACE/1340.1.1.1.1.1 > > Message Board Post: > > Yes, the date of enumeration for each of those census is important to be able to calculate a birth year. You also have to consider that it is quite common for age to be given wrongly by the member of the family trying to answer the enumerator's questions. > > The five men I mentioned were possible matches for the father - not the son. None of those was expected to be a match for the 'baby' Nils. Without the date correction for the christening, it was sitll possible that the child wasn't born until shortly after the 1865 census - therefore I wanted to consider all the possible father candidates and look at the farms where they were residing. > > A child born in 1865 would be recorded as age 1 in the Norwegian census of 31 Dec 1865. Given the matches to both the father and mother that the original poster presented - consider again the family living on Vigen. > http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbase&sidenr=10&filnamn=f60544&gardpostnr=129&sokefelt=skjul