>You also need to add that they changed their ages with every new census and I >have encountered a few sex changes during my research, too, not to mention >they spelled their names (first and last) different every decade or so. One of the men in my family died around 1850, but he kept having children long after his death. There were three additional children added to the household, and the death certificate of at least one of them lists that long dead man as the father. Sue