Discover Your Ancestors in Newspapers 1690-Today All 50 States!
Enter Last Name
GenealogyBank.com

Thursday, November 4, 2010

One More Name Butchering From 1860

This is my 3rd great-grandmother from the 1860 Census in Adams County, Illinois, where the two previous entries were taken.

4 comments:

  1. hmmmm..tough one. but I'll start somewhere ; )
    Frustia Baums??

    ReplyDelete
  2. Those are close to what I think he meant...

    ReplyDelete
  3. This one is really difficult as the person's actual name was Trientje Behrens. I think the enumerator meant to write Fruitia Barms. That's partially based on the handwriting and partially based upon how the family likely said their last name.

    ReplyDelete