[or-roots] What do KP.B and PO mean?

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Hi Bob,
    It's probably much to simple, but since you said skills (or occupations) 
were listed, how about Keeping Books   and Post Office workers.

Dallas

n a message dated 3/14/2004 11:59:11 AM Mountain Standard Time, 
dgoodma02 at comcast.net writes:
Thanks Leslie:  This list is very interesting and lists skills.  There is one 
Women listed as  "House of ill Repute".---What can I say?

--
Bob Goodman
USAF Retired
University Place, Washington
> Bob
> I assume this is a census listing and you are looking at original images?
> 
> Best guess is you're out of luck, the census taker was lazy or for whatever
> reason the KB.B and PO did not want their full names used or they were so
> accustomed to being just referred to by the letters that they gave the
> census taker only that info. It is possible that these individuals had
> accents that made the census taker not understand some unusual surname:
> Keibeebe for example and maybe PO was from southern roots and was just
> calling himself "poor"
> 
> This sounds like you were dealing with someone in a boarding house or
> similarl situation? If you have the whole image sometimes the name of the
> boarding house or institution is written down the side, I have a great aunt
> who was in a school for girls as teacher in Wisconsin and the name of the
> school includes the name of the owner and is written down the side of the
> page under house numbers column, she happens to have her name spelled out as
> head of household too, but this particular census taker was meticulous, a
> lazier one might have figured it was spelled out in the margin and taken a
> shortcut.
> 
> Quite frankly unless you can find other documents listing these folks in
> proximity; old news stories, payrolls etc the likelyhood of ever knowing who
> they were sounds slim to me. If this is a boarding house or bunkhouse the
> chances of these same folks being there ten years either way would most
> likely be slim or none and your only hope is finding some other type of
> document, or else stumble on a descendant of their who knows they were there
> at that time and can fill in the blanks.
> 
> For example my great grand is in the 1860 Jackson county census as MM
> Melvin, now if Michael Martin Melvin's descendant were to be grasping at
> straws in search of his ancestor and conclude, "gee maybe this is gramps"
> and come to the list for confirmation because the age was off by two years
> or the place of birth didn't match I would feel pretty comfortable in
> disappointing him; I know Uncle 'Rell was born in Slate Creek in 1862
> (family bible) the age and so forth data in census is a good match and great
> gram is with her folks without Gramps in 1860 census.
> 
> So it all comes back to how important this is to you? If you really need to
> know; ie you suspect they also may be relatives, or have some other
> relevancy such as place of origin or whatever, you are going to have to go
> to other historical docs for that place. Newspaper, payroll and such. You
> don't say when and where this is, if it is a big 20th century town you
> probably can find them if it is important enough, if they were in say
> Antelope, Oregon in 1880 or earlier, lots of luck, the whole town burned in
> 1898 and I would expect that the only hope of finding anything before there
> would be payroll type info that was sent offsite on a regular basis or
> someone that happened to have hard copy info of papers (here I am assuming a
> local paper, the county seat might have a paper still in existence) saved
> because they were packrats and subsequently said info was preserved.
> 
> if you really feel a need for that info drop me a note off list as to what
> and where of what you have and I will take a stab at it for you, but like I
> say it doesn't sound like a high probability.
> 
> Les Chapman
> khanjehgil at presys.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:dgoodma02 at comcast.net
> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 11:39 AM
> 
> While researching my ggf Thomas Goodman I came across a list of persons, one
> of which was my ggf. The first name on the List was KB.B followed by self,
> the next name was PO followed by other.  Any one have an Idea what the KP.B
> and PO mean?  The list was of 21 males, from a number of varius states from
> NY to Michigan.  Any one have any Idea?
> 
> --
> Bob Goodman
> USAF Retired
> University Place, Washington
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