<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18928"></HEAD> <BODY style="PADDING-LEFT: 10px; PADDING-RIGHT: 10px; PADDING-TOP: 15px" id=MailContainerBody leftMargin=0 topMargin=0 CanvasTabStop="true" name="Compose message area"> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hello Friends------</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I often come across a baby recorded as "Nameless" in censuses.  I realize the reasons for doing this.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>This situation is not "Nameless," but I think it may be something akin.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The 1880 census of the household of Frank and Sallie Fuller [names changed for privacy] records a baby named John Fuller as born May 1880.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>A John Fuller of this age never appears again, as far as I can tell from a thorough census search and search of other family documents.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I need to determine reasonably that William Albert Fuller, also born in May 1880 according to his tombstone, is the son of the couple above.  <EM>His parents' will and probate are not available, and their 1900 census is nowhere to be found (even after a thorough, downright obsessive search---definitely exhaustive).</EM></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>In the 1880 census also appears Lena Fuller.  In 1910, I find William Albert (and wife) in the next dwelling listed </FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial>after Lena, and a known brother to Lena recorded two dwellings down.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I have scoured the census of 1880 for another baby named William Fuller and find none that matches.  I have considered that William Albert Fuller may have been adopted from outside the family and even re-named, but I find no other male child born that month and year in the county or surrounding counties.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>A file on the extended family held by the local genealogical society lists William Albert as Frank and Sallie's son, does not mention a birth for John Fuller, and makes no note of adoption (although the creator of the list might have just omitted that).</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I have also looked for a William of the right age living with other family members in the counties and state from which they came.  No William there.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The infant John Fuller is recorded in this 1880 census as having been born in May 1880.  William Albert Fuller was born 25 May 1880.  The census was taken 2 June 1880.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>This infant's grandfather was named John, and there were many in the extended family named John, although this particular couple never had another child named John.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>For William Albert Fuller to be the biological son of Frank and Sallie, they would have to have changed his name from John Fuller to William Albert Fuller----or given the eight-days-old baby a temporary name to satisfy the census taker.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Do you know of cases when the parents just gave a child a temporary name for such a record as a census taken a few days after the child was born?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Warmest Regards,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Donna</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>