I found my Beeken family in the 1920 census, transcribed as Bulan.

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I found my Beeken family in the 1920 census, transcribed as Bulan ... and who could blame them considering the handwriting ...

This small trick has helped me several times - Search using only the first names; name of head of family, first name of spouse and first name of one of the children. If one child doesn't work try another one.

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  1. Elizabeth O'DonnellNovember 29, 2016 at 5:06 AM

    I used your trick of first names and it worked! A branch of my family is Bender. I found them in the 1910 Federal Census as Tender.

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  2. JL BeekenNovember 29, 2016 at 11:03 AM

    Elizabeth O'Donnell Excellent! I thought it was kind of a cheesy trick and everyone was probably already using it. I'd been looking for that 1920 census for ten years. I thought I'd already seen every misspelling or mis-trascription of Beeken possible; Beacon, Buckin, Beckan.

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  3. Len SmithNovember 29, 2016 at 3:55 PM

    Sometimes you just have to search the census in the location where there were last living. I had a relative named Royce and it looked like Boise on the census and was index as Boise.

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