Re: Jacob Emmanuel Keller W. Virginia
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Re: Jacob Emmanuel Keller W. Virginia
robin rotoli 12/04/12
It's very normal for a person's name to be misspelled.Some of it comes from someone just speaking their name to an official, who writes it down however they hear it.Some of it comes from people trying to transcribe someone else's handwriting.
It can make it harder to find people when searching records, depending on just how misspelled the name is.When I first looked for Almina, both Elmina and Alemina variations showed up.However in the 1900 census her name was mistranscribed as Almira.That variation did not show up on my initial search.