Allie
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- Dec 17, 2014
Great advice, Suzanne! For my family we have two brothers and one ended up being Dickerson while the other went with Dickinson. And some early documents have Dixon, which is too far out there for the poor old search engine to consider.
We could do a whole thread on crazy census transcribers. I've heard that the 1870 census in particular was outsourced to India, which partially explains why "Arthur F Smith" ended up as Amet E Smt. My most favorite, though, is my relative Shadrach Rice, a respectable planter whose name was transcribed Shark Rico. Shark Rico sounds like a mobster. In my family, any transcription too off-the-wall is said to "win the Shark Rico award."
We could do a whole thread on crazy census transcribers. I've heard that the 1870 census in particular was outsourced to India, which partially explains why "Arthur F Smith" ended up as Amet E Smt. My most favorite, though, is my relative Shadrach Rice, a respectable planter whose name was transcribed Shark Rico. Shark Rico sounds like a mobster. In my family, any transcription too off-the-wall is said to "win the Shark Rico award."
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