From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Tue Feb 14 10:02:05 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1EH25jb025297; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:02:05 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1EH248f018055 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:02:04 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k1EEXDFI015238 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:33:13 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k1EEXDxu015237 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:33:13 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k1EDhFFI015096 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 08:43:15 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k1EGBuUt019833 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:11:56 -0700 X-Envelope-From: paulette@chodovepeople.com Tue Feb 14 09:11:55 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1EGBtjb019824 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:11:55 -0700 Received: from naomi.hostingwithus.net (naomi.hostingwithus.net [70.84.179.66]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1EGBpri020807 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:11:52 -0700 Received: from static24-72-88-191.regina.accesscomm.ca ([24.72.88.191] helo=[192.168.123.175]) by naomi.hostingwithus.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.52) id 1F92mO-00043c-8w for ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:11:52 -0600 Message-ID: <43F2010C.6090300@chodovepeople.com> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:10:52 -0600 From: Paulette Gilchuk Reply-To: paulette@chodovepeople.com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Question concerning census data References: <28e.58e3e9c.312332c1@aol.com> In-Reply-To: <28e.58e3e9c.312332c1@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - naomi.hostingwithus.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - rootsweb.com X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - chodovepeople.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Patscga@aol.com wrote: > >In a message dated 2/13/2006 9:35:51 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, >jholly1968@tpk.net writes: > >My gg grandfather, Joseph G. Dennison is listed in the 1870 Salem, >Washington Co., NY census with the people I believe are his parents and >siblings. This census states that his parents were born in Ireland. > > What are the parents names? When was Joseph born? >The next census I've found him on is the 1920 Pawlet, Rutland Co., VT census >living with his eldest son in which his parents are stated as being from >Scotland. > > What is the son's name and maybe the mother/wife's name? >My question is: where do I go from here? Do I search the Irish records to >verify his parentage? Which one is more likely to be accurate? > > I went to www.familysearch.org and typed in the surname DENNISON... Looks like they are mostly from ENGLAND and a few from IRELAND, and one or two from SCOTLAND... So start with the area where there are the most, ENGLAND.... >It has taken me years to find my great grandfather's (John Elbert >Dennison )family.(it took me getting his WWI draft card) He left my >grandfather, my great grandmother and his newborn daughter in 1924 and no >one heard from him again. All I had was my grandfather's fading memories. >What clinched it with the draft card was the physical description and my >great grandmother's name as his next of kin. He had red hair. 8*) > >Sooo...does anyone have any suggestions? > > > > >In my opinion your ancestor's parents were from Ireland. I've noticed this >discrepancy in my family. His daughter-in-law was probably the one giving >the information when he was 70 and she just didn't know the facts. Please note >the informant also says his "mother tongue" is "Scotch". Since he was born >in New York, this is probably incorrect, too. Perhaps she had heard him >speak Gaelic, which was also spoken in Ireland. I would definitely go with >Ireland. > > > We all know how well census takers do their job! It may be that the accent was just noted as Scotch because the census taker had heard an accent like it and just said Scotch. His parents may have spoke with a big accent and it carried on to the children... I am still sticking with England as the place to start, with Ireland coming in second. Hope this helps and with more details hopefully can help more! Paulette