My grandfather, James Galette Rogers, was called "Lette." He is erroneously listed in an 1880 Appanoose County Iowa census as a girl named "Gileta."
Census takers just wrote what they heard.
Many people who do not know this branch of the family personally have perpetuated the error.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Lette by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Lette: