Re: Oscar P. Sanderson of Frankville, AL/ Slough in AL
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Re: Oscar P. Sanderson of Frankville, AL/ Slough in AL
stephanie slough 12/31/09
You wrote - "I believe that the person I know as Laura J. Sanderson is actually Laura Isabell Sanderson - someone misread the I for a J on a census record."
You could put a note of some kind or put - [I. or J.] as the middle initial.
Yes, this is most possible as most census takers had very sloppy handwriting.
Go ahead an update your ancestry.com family tree.
Even handwriting on death certs. is sometimes very sloppy.