Monday, April 23, 2007

Detective work turns up family in 1930

Where were Charles and Frances Wiley and sons Charles and Dohn living in 1930? I had searched the census records under all of their names, but nothing turned up. Sometimes the problem rests with the census taker who misspells the surname, other times the transcriber misreads the last name written. Knowing that Dohn Frazee Wiley was born in 1926 in Delaware County, Indiana, I set out to do a township by township search through ancestry.com for the elusive family. First, I searches Niles Township, where Elwood and Flora Frazee (Frances's parents) lived. Next, I moved to Union Township (Eaton) and there listed as Charles Wilen I found the family record.

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