Transposed Names
Thank you for your continued weekly genealogy research suggestions. I have been reading them faithfully for several years but do not recall seeing this problem exactly. Perhaps this might help someone else. My father and his family lived on the same farm for more than 100 years; however, I could not locate them using the index for the 1920 census. When I searched line by line in the exact location, I found the transcriber had listed everyone in the family with my grandfather’s first name as their last name–specifically as James instead of Smith.
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