My great grandfather, Dempsey Lassiter, was listed in the 1870 Census in Nansemond County as "Laffiter" Then someone who transcribed it, changed it to "La PE ter". The only way I knew it was my family was by all the children's names. Kitty ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Gilmore" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 10:50 AM Subject: Re: Shockoe Cem records How about those double ff's. I have a great uncle whose given name was Jesse, and this was carved on his tombstone exactly as his family wrote it: J-e-f-f-e. The sextant's records also show him as Jeffe. --Tom On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Sunshine49 <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Both the Library of Virginia and the Virginia Historical Society have > copies of the John Wesley Cardwell family Bible records. I did that back > in > the 1970s. I am a BIG believer in not having the only copy of historical > papers and old pictures. If something happened to your originals and there > were no copies, it would be gone forever. The Valentine Richmond History > Center has copies of old Cardwell family pictures, as well as the original > oil of Mr. Cardwell himself, which I donated. We still have the Bible, and > keep it up, for over 150 years now [and watch as the quality of > handwriting > has steadily gotten worse...]. But yes I agree, make and distribute copies > of any family papers you have. And the name is Grotz, it's my maiden name, > I'm certain of the spelling. Not that I didn't grow up with all kinds of > weird spellings of it as I went through school. My guess is someone at the > Shockoe office just read out "Grotz", maybe from the death certificate, > and > someone else wrote it down phonetically in their record book. > > It's that original register that I'm curious about; what happened to it? > > Nancy > > ------- > I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. > > --Daniel Boone > > > > On Feb 2, 2009, at 2:12 PM, sharpe wrote: > > Is the microfilm of the original register? Or is it of the cards >> mentioned >> in the initial post? When was the film made? >> >> As a check, you can search out a two volume set covering the records up >> to >> 31 Dec 1950, transcribed (apparently from the original handwritten >> register) >> by Miss A. [Alice] Böhmer Rudd. She states in her introduction that she >> began copying the records "years ago" in the brick building at 210 >> Hospital >> Street (across from the gate) when Mr. Thomas B. Morton was >> Superintendent. >> The volumes were self-published about 1960. LC No. F234 R5 R8 1960 >> >> She shows (v2, p 203) John Grotts, bur 3 Feb 1930, age 54y 2m 4d, died in >> Richmond. Thus, the spelling error for John Grotts [sic] appears to have >> been in the original. >> >> >> As for the correction issue... "His mother in law, whose name I >> have in the family Bible and written by her own father as "Ida", was >> listed as "Ina." For some reason she seems to be "Ina" in most places >> now, it will probably never be corrected." ... >> >> Scan the bible pages and send copies to libraries as well as post on the >> web. A Bible, privately held and out of public view, will do nothing to >> correct errors. Let everyone see the original handwritten entries and >> add >> a >> transcription if you like. >> >> >> >> >> > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions > at > http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html --- avast! Antivirus: Inbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 090203-1, 02/03/2009 Tested on: 2/4/2009 1:21:33 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 090203-1, 02/03/2009 Tested on: 2/4/2009 1:39:09 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html