Yes, perhaps my experience will help. My ggfather and children were on a census but ten years later had disappeared, I found him by reading the entire census record and discovered a GW Bates had the same children's name as my ggfather, GWButts, so can assume the census taker wrote down the wrong name. Apparently my ggfather could not read nor write because some of the land records was signed with an "X", so he wouldn't have been aware of the mistake; and may not have been very eager to help. Billy----- Original Message ----- From: "Joyce A King" <jkin467@juno.com> To: <txredriv@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 8:34 AM Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] Census Records Question >A lady and I have connected our gr grandparents through a DNA project, > however, through years of searching and every different spelling of their > names, we have never found them on a census record anywhere--I even hired > a professional to do the census check and he couldn't find anything - so, > my question is, why would there be people that never show up on a census > record? Has anyone else had this problem? Were the census records so > inaccurate that this could happen? Anyone have any opinions on this? > > ------------------------------- > 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