your ancestors names are spelled
8 different ways?
The following was a job description printed in:
(1) "Branches & Twigs", Vermont Genealogical Society
2) "Out on a Limb", Dodge/Jefferson Counties Genealogical Society, Nov 1995
"I am a cencus taker for the city of Bufflow. Our city has groan very fast
in resent years and now, in 1865, it has becum a hard and time consooming
job to count all the peephill. Thare is not meny that can do this werk, as
it is necesarie to have a ejucashun, which a lot of pursons still do not
have. Another atribeart needed for this job is good speling, for meny of
the peephill to be caounted can hardle speek inglish, let alone spel there
name."
The editor added "with tongue in cheek": "Pity the poor reserchers triing to
reed the Bufflow centsus rekurds."
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