[PW] 1880 handwriting conundrum/thx

[Phalbe Henriksen]

Allen,

I suggest that you and T(racing) F(amilies) Mills consider looking up 
and down that census record to identify recognizable names using 
the  handwriting that you see here. People whose handwriting was that 
good would have written each letter the same each time.

Phalbe Henriksen

P.S. Maybe it was "Leo Albert" and that sounded like "Latte."

P.P.S. I once heard an amateur genealogist say that if you can't read 
a name, you should record it as "William." Caveat emptor!!

At 05:35 PM 6/20/2008, you wrote:
>In a message dated 6/20/2008 5:31:05 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>dkoenig at LMI.net writes:
>
>Allen,  The name looks like "Latte" to me.  That is the way
>Ancestry.com indexes him as well.  Dorothy
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>Hi and thanks,
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>    That seems to be the consensus, although we have gotten some imaginative
>alternatives as well, with the first letter of S for L.
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>   It should have been Leo or Albert, based on other family data. What could
>the Census Taker have misheard?
>
>   There also seems to be a faint X on the name (Line 12),  suggesting ?
>
>Allen
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