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Old 23-04-2017, 09:35   #44
Margaret Pilkington
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Re: Free Search

And then there is that trick our ancestors played on us where they add another name.
So you will be looking for John and it will be down as John Thomas.
I found this with one of my relatives.
So how do I know that he is the same person...well on the census a decade later he is there...with this additional name at the same address, with the same parents and another two siblings and grandma.
I think their houses had elastic sides.
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