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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>In my wife's research she has a census with the notation
the a volunteer had taken over</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>since he found the census taker had fallen drunk into a
ditch.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=khanjehgil@presys.com href="mailto:khanjehgil@presys.com">Leslie
Chapman</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us
href="mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us">or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, March 14, 2004 8:38
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [or-roots] What do KP.B
and PO mean?</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>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><A
href="mailto:khanjehgil@presys.com">khanjehgil@presys.com</A><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
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