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/5UC.2ACE/1277.1.1.1 Message Board Post: They should be one in the same. Census takers had the same problem as the rest of the population in those days. They were mostly illiterate. They didn't ask how to spell the name. Whatever it sounded like to them that is the way it was spelled. It was not uncommon for someone to age 3 years in ten or 15 years in ten. Chuck