British Maps and Aerial Photographs I read your daily sheet with interest and the idea that you should get a feel of the surroundings of your ancestors is interesting to me. I have recently visited the church where my Grandparents married in 1890 in Dover, England. To get a better feel for British locations, the site www.multimap.com/ is very useful. Not only does it have maps of all sizes, it has aerial photographs as well, and many more facilities. Stuart Leonard Germany 100th Birthday Anniversary In response to the tip on identifying those in a group photo taken at a 100th birthday celebration, I thought I'd tell you about our family's celebration of my mother's 100th birthday anniversary. Mother-Athalia Wheatley Wight Lee-died at the age of 88, but her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great grandchildren gathered in a local park to celebrate her 100th birthday last summer. Along with the usual family reunion activities of picnicking and visiting, we had a photo of Mother as we like to remember her-dressed up in a new Easter suit, hat, and gloves-enlarged to life size and mounted on hardboard. My husband cut out the figure and made a stand so that she was included in each of the activities-listening to a family band, songs and recitations, looking at keepsakes she had made as gifts through the years, etc. Probably the most memorable, though, was making the figure available for picture taking, both with the entire group and individually. Some of the younger generation that didn't get to know her in life now relate more familiarly with her memory. Lorraine Wight Hales Ogden, Utah Duplicate Ancestors or Enumerations? I applaud the recent tipster who realized there might be a language barrier in a Census. I would like to add that I have found other problems with Censuses. When researching, one must remember the purpose of the Census. It was meant to count people in a given area to see to it that they were fairly represented as a "common" interest in the federal House of Representatives (it was not until the 20th century that Senators were elected by the people). The more people counted in a given county, the more likely the county would be represented well. I have found an instance of one of my forefathers (who was a Census Taker) counting people within his own family, not only twice, but three times within his assigned area. I suppose if he were alive we could prosecute him for his obvious crime, but as he is not, I offer this tip as a heads up: Don't presume the "A. J." WHATEVERSURNAME living in one household is not the same "Andrew Jackson" WHATEVERSURNAME living in another. Drop the "S" While trying to research my in-laws' family tree, I was searching for the name of my husband's grandmother. Her last name was "Spoon," yet everyone kept telling me that it was "Spoons." I looked up "Spoons" several times and started to get kind of agitated because I knew that the woman did exist. My father in-law kept insisting that it was "Spoons." Finally when I searched "Spoon" anyway, lo and behold, there she was! Over the years the name was pluralized, so my in-laws grew up thinking "Spoons" was the name-not "Spoon." So watch those names, and try it without the "s." Julia