6-21-07

check lines 15 & 16

	A nice lady at genealogy.com found this for me when I phoned them to cancel my free trial before they started billing me.  
	Grandma's name is misspelled but still only semi-legible. It states she is a border, 23 years old, SINGLE (which contradicts her hand-written family history that she married in 1919 in Jerome, AZ.) She is an unnaturalized alien & a clerk at a dry goods store.
	It states her father was born in Switzerland and his native tongue was German speaking & her mother was born in France and native tongue was French. The census taker made some errors here: Grandma's mother's maiden name was Zwahlen and was probably German-speaking Swiss, and her father was born in Chavornay, according to Grandma's birth certificate.
	Census records are notoriously unreliable, at the mercy of the competence (and handwriting) of the census takers. Consider also that census takers often will rely on information given by the head of the household or whoever is home at the time.
	What's interesting is the entry below her name: "Wm. Regnan"--or something like that; it definitely looks like an F instead of an R. The baby is 1 5/12 yrs. old (or 1 6/12 yrs.--hard to tell). That jibes with the birth certificate of William H. McDonough, born in San Bernardino, CA on Aug. 18, 1918 (see "McDonough info" file). It also jibes with her second child, Mom's brother Jay, born in Kern County (i.e., Bakersfield) the next month. So Grandma was 8 months pregnant at the time. 
	Note that William's birth certificate states William H. McDonough, yet this census entry says Wm. Reguin, and the mother is single. 
	Mom's father is also listed as single on the 1920 census in Jerome, AZ, where he was living at the time. 

1920 Census
Jan. 8, 1920
Kern County
Bakersfield City
Precinct 42 Sub. (?) 3
pg 26 (of 64)

LINE 15:
Margarite Regnan (?) 
1010 Baker Street 
roomer
23 years old
single
year of immigration to the US = "unknown"

Naturalized or alien = alien