This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pickard, Packard Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gFC.2ACI/1459.2 Message Board Post: Debbie, You may want to take a look at the 1900 Dunn County Census, page 169a, lines 34-39. The family listed is Thomas Packard with a son Carl A. born Oct 1893. The address to this census file is: ftp://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/wi/dunn/1900/ed91-pg167a.txt If your names are correct, it is possible that the differences in Pickard vs Packard and Earl vs Carl are in the interpretation by the transcribers, or may have been recorded incorrectly by the census canvasser. Good luck- Steve