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in reply to a message by Jeff Cooke
Assuming your relative is female, I wonder whether that "Feeka" may be a diminutive of "Frederika"? Also, take a closer look at how the census-taker wrote the name -- could the first "e" possibly be an "r", and the "k" possibly be a "d", thereby making the name the more commonly known diminutive, "Freda"? Although, it's been my own experience with census records that, the further you go back in time, the neater the handwriting was. It's the U.S. government microfilming that was done early in this century that's a pain to work with.
-- Nanaea
-- Nanaea
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Jeff, if you want to tell me the number of the census roll you're working from, and the page where your relative appears on it, I can have a look at it in my library. If it's a case of your just having a bad roll of film, mine might be better. It'll take me a few days to check, though.
-- Nanaea
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Nanaea: Re: Feeka, It was the male head of the household. The film was very clear and I have also seen it printed in census indexes as "Feeka". I am sure it is a phoenetic spelling of a German name, as all my searches of Feeka come up with Islamic names.
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