> >> In one census, my ggfather and children were listed, but ten years later >> they had disappeared. I found them by chance reading the entire census >> and finding GW Bates with my ggfather's children. Undoubtedly, the census >> taker wrote out GW Bates rather than GW Butts, my ggfather, who could not >> read nor write as many of his earlier documents were signed with an"X"; >> later he learned to write his name as it appears on some later documents. >> Billy >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Ben Cooper" <bcooper@mc2k.com> >> To: <txredriv@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 11:34 AM >> Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] Census Records Question >> >> >>> Joyce, it makes a difference if you are talking about a maternal or >>> paternal >>> DNA print match. >>> >>> The paternal DNA print test is on the Y-Chromosome which is unique to >>> the >>> male and is passed from father to son generation after generation and >>> changes rarely, like on the average one-marker every 500-years as such >>> is >>> very useful in identifying familial kinships going back through the >>> years. >>> If you cannot find your most recent common ancestor back to 1850 it >>> becomes >>> much more difficult, if not impossible beyond that. If you have not used >>> the >>> message boards in genealogy.com, you may try that. >>> >>> I have found numerous irregularities with census records which compounds >>> the >>> problems when searching census records. I found one ancestor in RRC >>> where >>> the first name was listed as the last name in the 1860 USC. I found it >>> only >>> by doing a page by page search of the census. >>> >>> If it is a materal match this is another issue. I have yet to find a >>> common >>> ancestor with 20-25 mtDNA print matches with my mother's DNA print >>> withother >>> families. I have not gotten off the ground with this type of match >>> research. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> H. Ben Cooper >>> Bella Vista, Arkansas >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Joyce A King" <jkin467@juno.com> >>> To: <txredriv@rootsweb.com> >>> Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 9:34 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 >> >