Posts in July 13, 2016

In reviewing the 1940 census enumerations for my Ufkes cousins in Hancock County, Illinois, I found an entry for a Henry Ufkes, married and just starting his family. The age was inconsistent with the known Henrys in the family at that time and there was no child in the family with the name of Henry’s child. Further research revealed that the census taker simply wrote down the wrong last name and substituted the last name of Fecht with Ufkes. There were many families with both last names in the township. Is it possible the census taker got mixed up when writing your family’s census entry?