Dear Listers, I have received a question from a couple of people concerning the extraction of G-R's from Bay County, Michigan. The extraction for Bay County was difficult in the sense that there were numerous occasions where the surname for one family group was listed as being G-R but the same surname for another family group was not. This is further compounded by the following classifications that appear on the census. 1. Russian/Polish - German Speaking 2. Polish - Germany Speaking 3. Russian/Polish - Polish Speaking You will find the same surname spelled the same for family groups within each of the different groups above. ONLY THE SURNAMES FOR THE FIRST GROUP (RUSSIAN/POLISH - GERMANY SPEAKING) WERE EXTRACTED. The others were not. While all three of these groups probably have G-R's in them I could not tell for certain if they were in the last two. Therefore I didn't include them. There is one other group of families that also gives problems in extraction. Some enumerators list German surnames as have the place of birth as Russia and then list the language spoken as Russian. In this case you have to look and see if the enumerator dealt differently with the language spoken for those with the place of birth as Russia . Some enumerator listed German as the language spoken and some listed Russian. Those enumerators that differentiated between German and Russian within their enumeration made it easy. Those that spoke German were included and those that spoke Russian were not. In those cases where the enumerator didn't differentiate between the languages spoken all were included. I know this has the potential for leaving off some the G-R's families from these extractions. I hope that helps to clear up what I did. It is possible that Michigan and Wisconin have the potential for being confusing because of this issue. Thanks, Gene Jenkins Selah, WA.