>> Cynthia Crigler posted this on the GERMANNA_COLONIES-L >> List and I thought you might be interested. It does indeed explain >> why names have different spellings and sometimes why we have >> problems in our research. Can you imagine that one of your >> ancestors was named RACHMANINOFF? Would the person below >> perhaps have written it down as ROCKMEOFF? ROCKETMANOFF? >> ROCKMANANDOFF? The possibilities are endless. >> >>Listowner Note: The following is a real note sent from a census >>taker in the 1800s to the government. This may explain why a >>lot of us have variations in the spellings of our names. LOL >> >>centsus rekurds "I am a cencus taker for the city of Bufflow. Our >>city has groan very fast in resent years and now, in 1865, it has >>becum a hard and time consooming job to count all the peephill. >>Thare is not meny that can do this werk, as it is necesarie to >>have a ejucashun, which a lot of pursons still do not have. Another >>atribeart needed for this job is good speling, for meny of the >>peephill to be caounted can hardle speek inglish, let alone spel >>there name." >> ===========