The handwriting on a document is clear and it is clearly wrong. Do not correct it in your transcription. Make an annotation about it separately from your transcription of the document. Sometimes errors are clues. It’s pretty clear the 1870 census taker wrote the last name of my Habben ancestors as Hapen or maybe Hapem. The last letter is questionably one or the other. The first five letters are clearly “Hape” when comparing the letters to script for known words on the page. The “Hapen” gives me a clue as to how the name was said by my family in 1870.
If I transcribe it as Habben that clue is gone.
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