Dear Cuz Diana, Totally agree on the census takers. Try as they might lots of times they were dealing with people who could not write or spell, or with foreign accents, they had a problem understanding, or were just in a hurry and jotted down what "they" thought was the spelling. I get a big chuckle about some genealogy people who take the hard stand on the "But on the census they spelled it like this" so it must be.... Yeah right.. ha ha For myself I just wanted to see if there was something out there in a document that would be more powerful than a census. Hugs Cuz B ttg-inc@tx.rr.com http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ttg13/ "'Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain " ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diana Crawford" <diana@ddcrawford.com> To: <wynne-genealogy-society@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 7:25 PM Subject: Re: [WGS] Mary Paterson Dufton > They have always spelled their name with one t. All the correspondence > to > and from my great grandfather, Alexander, spells the name with one t. > I've > come to learn that the census takers seem to take their best guess as to > spellings and don't get it right more often than not. > > Regards, > Diana > >