Ella and Clyde Aubrey in the 1925 New York Census

I've been dabbling a bit more in to my family's history, trying to track down each time my direct lines show up in the census records, both federal and state.  It took me a while to find Ella Major Aubrey, wife of Daniel Columbus Aubrey, in the 1925 New York State Census.  She was my Great-Grandmother.  The family had been in Champlain or Rouses Point for decades.  But census takers, indexers, and transcribers do very funny things with the written word.

I finally found the family listed as Aubay.  Close.

"New York State Census, 1925," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KS7G-66F : 8 November 2014), Ella Aubay, Champlain, A.D. 01, E.D. 01, Clinton, New York, United States; records extracted by Ancestry and images digitized by FamilySearch; citing p. 5, line 29, New York State Archives, Albany.

But I did find another Ella Aubrey, this time in Niskayuna, Schenectady county, New York.  Schenectady county is just two over from Otsego county, where Ella's mother-in-law, Marie Vashrow Aubrey was enumerated in both 1920 and 1930.  Marie died in Oneonta, Otsego county, New York, which is just 72 miles from Niskayuna, according to mapquest.

I thought it might be my Ella.  Just a few years off on the age.  And has a son named Clyde.  This one is Clyde R. Aubrey.  My Grand Uncle was Joseph Freeman Claude Aubrey, but I understand that he went by Clyde.  Clyde R. was a Railroad Employee.  Claude/Clyde is listed as a machinist.  Many Aubrey men in Clinton county, New York were either machinists or railroad men.

"New York State Census, 1925," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KSH4-69R : 8 November 2014), Ella Aubrey, Niskayuna, A.D. 01, E.D. 04, Schenectady, New York, United States; records extracted by Ancestry and images digitized by FamilySearch; citing p. 15, line 30, New York State Archives, Albany.

I don't know who Clyde R. and Ella were, but I'm guessing they're not part of my direct family.  As always, more research to be done.

More on all branches of my family can be found here.