At 08:45 PM 10/29/99 -0400, Rob and Sheila Nance wrote: >Has anyone ever heard of the name "Afielder"? I ran across it tracing >my husband's Boon family tree. It's a first name for a female in the >late 1800s to early 1900s. Maybe the census taker's handwriting is just >bad. It sounds like the census taker wrote down "Ophelia" the way it sounded to him. Elizabeth Whitaker