It took me a while to find my family because my name is obscure, which you would think would be the opposite. Because it's obscure the census takers had a hard

It took me a while to find my family because my name is obscure, which you would think would be the opposite. Because it's obscure the census takers had a hard time getting the spelling right and would cross it out and rewrite it. Which, in turn, seems like it made it much harder for the ML to figure out.