This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dunphy,Smith,Young Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WUB.2ACI/1366.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you for the reply.To my understanding census takers right down what people tell them.My grandfather is also listed as being born in New York City.He had no birth certificate,back in those days,I guess you didn't need one.(The story has it that my grandfather,his mother,and two sisters came through Ellis Island when my grandfather was a young boy.He was dressed as a girl to stay with his family on the ship.My grandfather was so sick that the family almost didn't make it into NYC.) Francis Dunphy married my grandmother Isabelle Smith in December 1918 Trenton,NJ.