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Everything's Relative: Nicknames, Criminal Connections, the Beaver Cleaver
6/1/2005
The lighter side of family history.

Don't Call Me That

When I searched the 1870 census for my great-grandparents, I found them listed in Milford, Kent County, Del., as William J. Orem, age 26; Anna R., age 24 — and Charlotte, age 3. Who was she? I didn't know any of my grandmother's sisters was named Charlotte.

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