If you relative had a known issues with their hearing, have you included this in your entry for them in your genealogical database? Difficulties hearing could have impacted your relative in a variety of ways, including occupational choices, ability to easily function in certain social settings, and their ability to hear and answer questions from census takers, record clerks, and the like.
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This is a great tip, Michael. Add misunderstanding to the difficulties hearing loss causes. People who are losing their hearing or have lost most of it only pick up a word or two here and there in a conversation, then they put two and two together and come up with five or eight or nineteen. (We’re at this point with my husband so I speak from experience.)