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Originally Posted by mattsey9
One of the first rules of genealogy: Learn all the different ways to spell your name incorrectly!
Not that this seller wasn't clueless, but it goes a long way to show why old census records are rife with errors in spelling and dates.
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With my last name, I get more misses than hits. It's a very rare last name, 19 people in the US have it, all related to me. Some others in Germany that are probably related somehow. Yet I see the name a lot in searches and it ends up being Decker, or Dreher or Dreyer because they find something close