Gaigai...I have one for you...fairly recent in terms of genealogy, and yet one of my more difficult fellows!!
Joseph Pleasant Barber, b Sept 28, 1878, to James C Barber and Mary Jane Vilate Munjar. Can be followed through the census reports up to 1920 with no difficulty. The JOSEPH P Barber disappears, but JACK Pleasant Barber shows up! This is where I argue with my sister...I say that Jack is our g-grandfather, she says she doesn't think so. Jack and Joseph have the same birthdate, but Joe is born in California, Jack claims to have been born in Canada. Military records show Joseph registering for the draft. Info on the draft card is correct. Bear with me, there's a little story here...
Joseph was married to Maxie Ella Pearson. They divorced, and Joseph married Emily King. 1920 shows Joe and Emily together with son Beverly Burton Barber in Contra Costa, California. (The cousin I just found tells a story about how Joe was found by Emily trying to drown the baby he was supposed to be giving a bath to, and she kicked him to the curb) That's the last we see of JOSEPH on the records, and the first that we see JACK is on the 1930 census, and then there's a military cemetery record for Jack, for 1946...I suspected Jack was actually Joseph for some time...and then I found a military hospital record on Ancestry for Jack P Barber, b 28 Sep 1878 in Canada, states citizenship through his father, and gives an alias of "Joseph"...
I say that "Jack is our man"...whatcha think? :lol: