02 November 2014

1830 Census Handwriting

[repeated from 16 June 2008]

Does it look like Jas. Kyle to you?




Sometimes it is clear to see how names get misread. This 1830 Census entry for Monroe Township, Licking County, Ohio, was located by searching manually. There are still times when a manual search is necessary. Not every name is easily readable.

Ancestry.com indexed this as "Gs Hyles" and it is easy to see how that might have happened--particularly with the last name. However, I think this is actually meant to be Jas. Kyle. James is known to have lived in the township for several decades and the enumeration is consistent with what is known about his household.