Thank you all. I was anticipating something much more complicated!
Jean
From: Monique Riley
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 7:09 PM
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] acronym
Jean,
It means it was a source that came over from the "New" FamilySearch, which
was the previous older
Good thoughts! I had to check the pregnancy angle, but sister Alice was
born in May 1921, and the census was done on 16 Jan 1920. Too long for a
pregnancy, and I have never heard (or found evidence of) a miscarriage in
between. They did lose their first child shortly after birth (1912), and
Another time I found a Pinsent ancestor staying with her aunt and uncle on
census night, also by name of Pinsent, in a nearby Devon hamlet, but she
was listed as another of their children; hardly surprising with the same
surname and similar age. It took me ages to work out what had happened!
On
Holly,
Was his mother pregnant? or just had a miscarriage? Enough reason for a
friend to have her toddler.
Then again, aren't American censuses copied from other sheets like
English censuses? Easy to miss a child when copying especially if there
is another person of the same name on the
Thanks to all for your responses.
I was close to my grandparents, who lived in the house my father was born in
until their deaths in 1971 and 1977. There were no family members nearby this
small Indiana town, who might be babysitting for a 21 month old toddler.
Perhaps neighbors? Possible,
Hi
I have had young children living with grand parents, Aunts and Uncles
Carie
From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On
Behalf Of Martha Graham
Sent: 16 January 2018 22:13
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census
I agree with that. I used to find family members at the "wrong" address so
many times on census night, I almost thought they were doing it
deliberately!
On 16 Jan 2018 10:14 p.m., "Martha Graham" wrote:
> Hi Holly,
> Many times a child will be visiting a neighbor, or other
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