From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Tue May 2 18:45:41 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 k430jfjb023400; Tue, 2 May 2006 18:45:41 -0600 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 k430jcJi025755 for ; Tue, 2 May 2006 18:45:38 -0600 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 k42MCCFI010913 for ; Tue, 2 May 2006 18:12:12 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k42MCChP010912 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Tue, 2 May 2006 18:12:12 -0400 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 k42LOvFI010692 for ; Tue, 2 May 2006 17:24:57 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k42NwCCh027428 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Tue, 2 May 2006 17:58:12 -0600 X-Envelope-From: Dddarwin@aol.com Tue May 2 17:58:12 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 k42NwCjb027417 for ; Tue, 2 May 2006 17:58:12 -0600 Received: from imo-m22.mail.aol.com (imo-m22.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.3]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k42NwA4v005229 for ; Tue, 2 May 2006 17:58:10 -0600 Received: from Dddarwin@aol.com by imo-m22.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.5.) id e.3e6.153a592 (29673); Tue, 2 May 2006 19:58:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Dddarwin@aol.com Message-ID: <3e6.153a592.31894c08@aol.com> Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 19:58:00 EDT To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com CC: fenenga@connpoint.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: 9.0 Security Edition for Windows sub 2340 X-Spam-Flag: NO 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 Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: census puzzle-oops! ANSWER TO BELOW: Edwin or Cornelia, Truthfully I looked at the censuses earlier this morning but just got around to answering your message. The Census information on the birth of Marjorie Hartnett, listed as Granddaughter did not make sense. I used the "Spy Glass" at the top of the Ancestry page to enlarge that portion and I on both parents I read...............IRE - English. Now this might have been possible for the father since apparently it was not a son of Fred Moffitt BUT both Fred and his wife were born in the US making it almost impossible for that to be the correct information on the mother's place of birth. Remember, these were not the originals......the census taker took the information and then recopied it to the page that was to be submitted. This made for an additional possible error. EXAMPLE: In the 1900 Census for my Grandparents and Aunts and Uncles it states the following...........James Flynn b. Ireland; Sarah Flynn b. Illinois; Mary Flynn (daughter) b. Maryland. The rest of the children were correct with state of birth being Nebraska. Actually James was born Illinois; Sarah born Maryland and Mary born Nebraska. Due to the error in the place of birth I had a difficult time locating the census page. After reading the page a little more fully I assume that he had copied my Grandfather in error from the line above (they both said Ireland) and then proceeded to compound the error. He even had my Grandmother Sarah as a Locomotive Engineer but had crossed it out and put it next to my Grandfather James!! Consequently the places of birth of everyone's parent was in error. However, again it looked to me to be IRE - English. Gretchen ORIGINAL QUESTION: | |would sks please check this censi and tell me what the place for an |individual says (it's difficult to read) and what it means (it's not |standard). this censi is a bit blurry at Ancestry and a little |hard to read. |I asked them for help but got one of those automatic replies |telling me |about making corrections to the census, which was not at all |what I was |refering to, so I'm turning to Roots-L in hopes of help. | |in the family of Fred Moffitt is his grand daughter, Marjorie |Hartnett. her |parent's birth place is odd to me and hard to read. would |someone please |check it and transcribe it for me. | |they are almost to the bottom of the page for this censi, |Iowa > Black Hawk > 3-Wd Waterloo > District 20 |Fred Moffitt and family, Marjorie Hartnett |thank you for your help.