In a message dated 10/25/2005 8:09:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time, llewis001@centurytel.net writes: Still the creative names used in the census records seems to me to have been a southern thing. My other families in New England, Indiana, Ohio and Missouri didn't play with their names and ages the way my Smith county peeps did. ---- Southern folk seemed to more spread out than more populated states, and they had/have a different level of familiarity than those north of the Ohio River. Ex: In the North, "hun" is a word for affection; in the South it's a form of salutation. It's the southern eccentricities that make us so "special". <g> Sharon Tabor

Sharon....I wonder if, in those other areas, you are finding on the census they could "read, write, were at school"....In the Middle Tennessee country areas, I have found many of my family could not obtain the education needed...at times they were needed at home to work the farms and/or help raise children when a mother had passed on at far too young an age. Hence...the various spellings and strange names. M. -------Original Message------- From: FmlyTracer@aol.com Date: 10/25/05 05:23:45 To: TNSMITH-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [TNSMITH] census v records In a message dated 10/25/2005 8:09:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time, llewis001@centurytel.net writes: Still the creative names used in the census records seems to me to have been a southern thing. My other families in New England, Indiana, Ohio and Missouri didn't play with their names and ages the way my Smith county peeps did. ---- Southern folk seemed to more spread out than more populated states, and they had/have a different level of familiarity than those north of the Ohio River. Ex: In the North, "hun" is a word for affection; in the South it's a form of salutation. It's the southern eccentricities that make us so "special". <g> Sharon Tabor ==== TNSMITH Mailing List ==== Visit Photos Of Cemeteries Of Smith County Over 500 + Cemeteries online with pictures and Descriptions http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnsmith/tngen/cempics.htm