book binding, putting the pages together and binding them to the back, used to be all hand labor. A cobbler is a shoe maker. Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gail Moore" <embracer@pineland.net> To: <GAWARE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 11:29 PM Subject: Re: [GAWARE] Ok The Bend Area and new question for the entire list > Ok thanks. > Now for my next question of the week > > What in the world was a Boot Block? > I found this on a census yesterday under Type of Occupation > > Book Block and it was used on the MI census in the early 1900's if that makes a difference at all. > > Does this have something to do with the making of shoes? > > Gail
So a Boot Block was a person who bound books together! Ok Well I knew that a Cobbler was not a desert when used for an occupation but instead a person who made shoes! Thanks Bill.................................... Gail ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Fish" <wfish@isoa.net> To: <GAWARE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 11:40 PM Subject: Re: [GAWARE] Ok The Bend Area and new question for the entire list > book binding, putting the pages together and binding them to the back, > used to be all hand labor. A cobbler is a shoe maker. > > Bill > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gail Moore" <embracer@pineland.net> > To: <GAWARE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 11:29 PM > Subject: Re: [GAWARE] Ok The Bend Area and new question for the entire > list > > >> Ok thanks. >> Now for my next question of the week >> >> What in the world was a Boot Block? >> I found this on a census yesterday under Type of Occupation >> >> Book Block and it was used on the MI census in the early 1900's if that >> makes a difference at all. >> >> Does this have something to do with the making of shoes? >> >> Gail > > > ==== GAWARE Mailing List ==== > GAWARE Archives: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/GA/ware.html > GAWARE GenWeb: http://www.rootsweb.com/~gaware/ > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > >