Ancestry.com has John Wilders under John Gildera! If you can it pays to look at the original! Dawne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill & Nancy Miller" <millersplace@infostations.com> To: <PAFAYETT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 6:05 PM Subject: [PAFAY] Robert WILDERS - 1930 Census > Hi, I would appreciate it if someone would look for John WILDERS, wife Mary, and children, Robert and Donald on the 1930 Census. Robert was born in Champion, Pa.in 1924. Mary [age 13] lived in Saltlick, District 81 in 1920. Thank you ! > > > > ==== PAFAYETT Mailing List ==== > "Please remember to post your questions and answers to the list for > all to share". > > >

How does that happen? Someone can't read the writing on a census, or it is messed up in the transfer from census to Ancestry? -------Original Message------- From: PAFAYETT-L@rootsweb.com Date: Monday, February 02, 2004 6:12:22 PM To: PAFAYETT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PAFAY] Robert WILDERS - 1930 Census Ancestry.com has John Wilders under John Gildera! If you can it pays to look at the original! Dawne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill & Nancy Miller" <millersplace@infostations.com> To: <PAFAYETT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 6:05 PM Subject: [PAFAY] Robert WILDERS - 1930 Census > Hi, I would appreciate it if someone would look for John WILDERS, wife Mary, and children, Robert and Donald on the 1930 Census. Robert was born in Champion, Pa.in 1924. Mary [age 13] lived in Saltlick, District 81 in 1920. Thank you ! > > > > ==== PAFAYETT Mailing List ==== > "Please remember to post your questions and answers to the list for > all to share". > > > ==== PAFAYETT Mailing List ==== Fayette County Government Links: http://www.hhs.net/fforward/county/county html .

Both! The handwriting is sometimes hard to read and I have seen some real "boo boos" on Ancestry. But to give them a little credit, it can be really hard to read that old writing (and a lot of new writing too!). This entry looked like "Childers" to me unless you knew what you were looking for. Just think of the census taker, writing things down without a desk, just leaning the forms on whatever was around and you can see why their handwriting is less than textbook perfect. Also sometimes the census taker didn't ask how people spelled their surname and wrote it down the way it sounded. Things often got pretty creative! That is why it is helpful when you can see the originals and decide for yourself what it supposed to say! Dawne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill & Nancy Miller" <millersplace@infostations.com> To: <PAFAYETT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 10:11 PM Subject: Re: [PAFAY] Robert WILDERS - 1930 Census > How does that happen? Someone can't read the writing on a census, or it is > messed up in the transfer from census to Ancestry? > -------Original Message------- > > From: PAFAYETT-L@rootsweb.com > Date: Monday, February 02, 2004 6:12:22 PM > To: PAFAYETT-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [PAFAY] Robert WILDERS - 1930 Census > > Ancestry.com has John Wilders under John Gildera! If you can it pays to look > at the original! > Dawne > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bill & Nancy Miller" <millersplace@infostations.com> > To: <PAFAYETT-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 6:05 PM > Subject: [PAFAY] Robert WILDERS - 1930 Census > > > > Hi, I would appreciate it if someone would look for John WILDERS, wife > Mary, and children, Robert and Donald on the 1930 Census. Robert was born > in Champion, Pa.in 1924. Mary [age 13] lived in Saltlick, District 81 in > 1920. Thank you ! > > > > > > > > ==== PAFAYETT Mailing List ==== > > "Please remember to post your questions and answers to the list for > > all to share". > > > > > > > > > > ==== PAFAYETT Mailing List ==== > Fayette County Government Links: http://www.hhs.net/fforward/county/county > html > > . > > > > ==== PAFAYETT Mailing List ==== > "You Have a Friend in Fayette County, Pennsylvania"! > > >