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Surname Spellings: It’s All In The Eye Of The Beholder Early on in my genealogical research I was under the impression that it was best to look for the spelling of my maiden name Yates using just those letters. Boy, was I proved wrong almost immediately. While looking in census records for my ancestors with [...]
Sometimes, you get a transcribed record for a census and you wonder how the transcriber came up with a completely different name than what it actually was. For example, I have a transcribed census record with my ancestor’s surname spelled Aytes instead of Yates. It might look like a transposed letter error, but then I [...]
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