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Florence versus Gail Heckerman in Hancock County, Ohio - b. 1892

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Florence versus Gail Heckerman in Hancock County, Ohio - b. 1892

shaslam100  (View posts)
Posted: 25 Nov 2006 10:17PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Heckerman
I am trying to verify if a person that appears on the census is one person or two different people. There is a huge discrepancy in the census records related to this person. In the census records from 1900 and 1910...there is a daughter listed for Charles F. and Margaret (Maggie) V. Heckerman living in Blanchard Township, Hancock County, Ohio. Her name is Florence G. or J. (the initial varies between the two census records). In 1920...there is a name listed for a daughter for the same parents, aged 26, by the name of Gail Heckerman and Florence no longer appears. The age is a little off from the prior census records and if you use the age to determine birth year..the year of birth would be 1894 not 1892 as in earlier census's...the question becomes...is there another daughter??? The other census records show that Maggie had 3 children but only 2 were still alive at the time of these censuses....and the birth date of this questionable 3rd daughter could be wrong. The 1900 census clearly shows the birth date of the known daughter, Florence, to be February 1892...BUT then the 1930 Census for this same family again shows the "questionable" daughter, Gail F., this time with an initial, as being 38...putting her back into the correct age bracket of being born in the year of 1892????? So is Florence really Gail???? I have not been able to find the correct answer to this question by searching the census records...so I am wondering if there is anyone out there who can help me determine if Florence and Gail are the same person???

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