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Old 09-24-2014, 12:32 PM
 
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It's interesting to note that U.S. census enumerators were never required to get exact spelling of names.

When looking at census pages I can tell when an enumerator took the time to get things right & when they just wrote down anything to get the job done.

I've seen some rather creative spelling of names on census.
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