Just wanted to pass on something I learned yesterday in searching thru census records, or any database I guess. I found that my 4th gr grandfathers first name was abbreviated to Saml. rather than Samuel (or Samuel S. or even S.S.) and each person listed in the household only had the 1st initial of their name written. The whole page was like that, guess the enumerator took shortcuts that day. I know on a late nite or "foggy" day I wouldn't have thought of that. Luckily I had decided to search for the surname for all in the state and this was how I found them. Just thought I'd pass this on.