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From: "Fred Lonsdale" <>
Subject: Re: Birthplace Bagan? 1870 Census
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 20:44:28 -0500
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"Tara" <> wrote in message
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> "Fred Lonsdale" <> wrote in message
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> > I sent you a JPEG of the census page. The Willhauck's are at the bottom.
I
> > guess everybody agrees that Bagan means either Baden or Bavaria. I still
> > have no idea what the country name is on line 21.
> >
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> If I'm looking at the right page, the country name on Line 21 (for Lewis
> Knight?) is France. The F is different from most of the others on the
page,
> the others are more old fashioned, but I've seen capital Fs made that way
> before. In fact, that is the way I was taught to make them in
grade-school.
> This enumerator varies some of his letters depending on how big of a hurry
> he's in. Notice the F on Frank on Line 30? It's different from the others,
> closer to the one on France on Line 21.
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> Tara Larkin
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Comparing the country on line 18 with line 21, I think you are correct.
Everything after the F looks the same. I never would have guessed that on my
own.


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