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<DIV>Hi Bob,</DIV>
<DIV> It's probably much to simple, but since you said skills (or occupations) were listed, how about Keeping Books and Post Office workers.</DIV>
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<DIV>n a message dated 3/14/2004 11:59:11 AM Mountain Standard Time, dgoodma02@comcast.net writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>Thanks Leslie: This list is very interesting and lists skills. There is one Women listed as "House of ill Repute".---What can I say?<BR><BR>--<BR>Bob Goodman<BR>USAF Retired<BR>University Place, Washington<BR>> Bob<BR>> I assume this is a census listing and you are looking at original images?<BR>> <BR>> Best guess is you're out of luck, the census taker was lazy or for whatever<BR>> reason the KB.B and PO did not want their full names used or they were so<BR>> accustomed to being just referred to by the letters that they gave the<BR>> census taker only that info. It is possible that these individuals had<BR>> accents that made the census taker not understand some unusual surname:<BR>> Keibeebe for example and maybe PO was from southern roots and was just<BR>> calling himself "poor"<BR>> <BR>> This sounds like you were dealing with someone in a boarding house or<BR>> similarl situation? If you have the whole image sometimes the name of the<BR>> boarding house or institution is written down the side, I have a great aunt<BR>> who was in a school for girls as teacher in Wisconsin and the name of the<BR>> school includes the name of the owner and is written down the side of the<BR>> page under house numbers column, she happens to have her name spelled out as<BR>> head of household too, but this particular census taker was meticulous, a<BR>> lazier one might have figured it was spelled out in the margin and taken a<BR>> shortcut.<BR>> <BR>> Quite frankly unless you can find other documents listing these folks in<BR>> proximity; old news stories, payrolls etc the likelyhood of ever knowing who<BR>> they were sounds slim to me. If this is a boarding house or bunkhouse the<BR>> chances of these same folks being there ten years either way would most<BR>> likely be slim or none and your only hope is finding some other type of<BR>> document, or else stumble on a descendant of their who knows they were there<BR>> at that time and can fill in the blanks.<BR>> <BR>> For example my great grand is in the 1860 Jackson county census as MM<BR>> Melvin, now if Michael Martin Melvin's descendant were to be grasping at<BR>> straws in search of his ancestor and conclude, "gee maybe this is gramps"<BR>> and come to the list for confirmation because the age was off by two years<BR>> or the place of birth didn't match I would feel pretty comfortable in<BR>> disappointing him; I know Uncle 'Rell was born in Slate Creek in 1862<BR>> (family bible) the age and so forth data in census is a good match and great<BR>> gram is with her folks without Gramps in 1860 census.<BR>> <BR>> So it all comes back to how important this is to you? If you really need to<BR>> know; ie you suspect they also may be relatives, or have some other<BR>> relevancy such as place of origin or whatever, you are going to have to go<BR>> to other historical docs for that place. Newspaper, payroll and such. You<BR>> don't say when and where this is, if it is a big 20th century town you<BR>> probably can find them if it is important enough, if they were in say<BR>> Antelope, Oregon in 1880 or earlier, lots of luck, the whole town burned in<BR>> 1898 and I would expect that the only hope of finding anything before there<BR>> would be payroll type info that was sent offsite on a regular basis or<BR>> someone that happened to have hard copy info of papers (here I am assuming a<BR>> local paper, the county seat might have a paper still in existence) saved<BR>> because they were packrats and subsequently said info was preserved.<BR>> <BR>> if you really feel a need for that info drop me a note off list as to what<BR>> and where of what you have and I will take a stab at it for you, but like I<BR>> say it doesn't sound like a high probability.<BR>> <BR>> Les Chapman<BR>> khanjehgil@presys.com<BR>> <BR>> -----Original Message-----<BR>> From:dgoodma02@comcast.net<BR>> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 11:39 AM<BR>> <BR>> While researching my ggf Thomas Goodman I came across a list of persons, one<BR>> of which was my ggf. The first name on the List was KB.B followed by self,<BR>> the next name was PO followed by other. Any one have an Idea what the KP.B<BR>> and PO mean? The list was of 21 males, from a number of varius states from<BR>> NY to Michigan. Any one have any Idea?<BR>> <BR>> --<BR>> Bob Goodman<BR>> USAF Retired<BR>> University Place, Washington<BR>> ---<BR>> Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.<BR>> Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).<BR>> Version: 6.0.590 / Virus Database: 373 - Release Date: 2/16/04<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> or-roots mailing list<BR>> or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us<BR>> http://sosinet.sos.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/or-roots<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>or-roots mailing list<BR>or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us<BR>http://sosinet.sos.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/or-roots</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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