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From: "Teresa Ghee Elliott" <>
Subject: Census Name Styles and How they can be helpful
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 12:03:33 -0500


One thing I do differently than Betty is each of my census names has a
different name style. In the Picklist and PE, they show as

John Jones (age 43) on the 1860 census

John Jones (age 52) on the 1870 census

John Jones (age 2) on the 1860 census

John Jones (age 11) on the 1870 census



As you can see, that easily helps me to pick out the right John Jones.
While that may not seem like a big deal in my example, imagine that you have
14 Sarah Unknowns. One of them is the Sarah Jones you are looking for. So
if you need to find the right Sarah Unknown, having her listed as Sarah
Jones, (age 42) on the 1860 census, is more helpful than 14 Sarah Unknowns.



It also is helpful for analysis. Say I find a John Jones in 1920. He is 59.
He is probably NOT my younger John Jones, since he would be about 62.
Having the census names in the PV would make that more obvious. I am a
little dense at noticing things like that, so the more things I have to
remind me the better. <G>



Teresa Ghee Elliott

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