Re: help with one or two handwritten characters on us census #general
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Susan&David
The original request on Viewmate was "...his wife died in December
1940, (I think)" The most likely, and simplest explanation is: The
original entry was W and was changed to Wd to agree with the
instruction to enumerators, and his wife did not die in December
1940. She died prior to the 1940 census.
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David Rosen Boston, MA
On 7/14/2020 10:01 AM, Paul Chirlin
wrote:
The enumerator first wrote M for married, then struck it and wrote WD for widow. Look at the name 2 above where exactly the same thing happened. The W is easier to see on that one but provides an example. The W on Epstein is partly hidden by the earlier M
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