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From: "L. R. Mills" <>
Subject: Re: Ag Lab
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 16:58:05 -0700
In-Reply-To: <39B070ED.C2E3C563@exo.com>


> The ancestors I am looking for seem to be, for the most part,
> Agricultural Laborers. Am I correct that Ag Lab was a rather lowly
> profession and low on the economic scale?
>
Ahh, I believe the correct euphemisms are "salt of the earth" and
"backbone of the empire". But yes, these folk were part of the Lower
Class and often moved about to where the work was.

Lou
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Louis R. Mills, Sebastopol, Calif., U.S.A., posing as:
Genealogy data at: http://users.ap.net/~lancelot/gen/

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