In a message dated 6/10/07 9:41:25 AM Central Daylight Time, pparnold@earthlink.net writes: My husband's great grandparents never show up - I think they are in the smeared unreadable lines, they didn't answer the door, the census taker couldn't understand them and called them the Joneses, they moved every time there was a census and they were on the road. They were invisible! Or the census taker misspelled their names so badly it doesn't hit when you spell it correctly. My grandmother's name was Genevieve, but on one census, the census taker put her down as Jennie V. .··-.¸.-··. (`'·.¸(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´) .··-.¸.-··. `·. .·´ «..* Edith *..» `·. .·` (¸.·'´(¸.·'´ `'·.¸)`'·.¸) In loving memory of Elizabeth B. Post August 8, 2006 Co-Coordinator: Heartmade Blessings Comfortghan Program "Caring Hearts, Touching Lives, One Stitch at a Time" _http://www.heartmadeblessings.org/_ (http://www.heartmadeblessings.org/) A Member of CrochetList Admin ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

I'm not in this family, but I thought your answer was cute and clever, and probably right on! Thanks for the smile. ----- Original Message ----- From: <NANAREB@aol.com> To: <txredriv@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 9:48 AM Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] Census Records Question In a message dated 6/10/07 9:41:25 AM Central Daylight Time, pparnold@earthlink.net writes: My husband's great grandparents never show up - I think they are in the smeared unreadable lines, they didn't answer the door, the census taker couldn't understand them and called them the Joneses, they moved every time there was a census and they were on the road. They were invisible! Or the census taker misspelled their names so badly it doesn't hit when you spell it correctly. My grandmother's name was Genevieve, but on one census, the census taker put her down as Jennie V. .··-.¸.-··. (`'·.¸(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´) .··-.¸.-··. `·. .·´ «..* Edith *..» `·. .·` (¸.·'´(¸.·'´ `'·.¸)`'·.¸) In loving memory of Elizabeth B. Post August 8, 2006 Co-Coordinator: Heartmade Blessings Comfortghan Program "Caring Hearts, Touching Lives, One Stitch at a Time" _http://www.heartmadeblessings.org/_ (http://www.heartmadeblessings.org/) A Member of CrochetList Admin ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXREDRIV-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message