Dexter Kenfield wrote: > > I'm having trouble reading an entry for Occupation in the 1920 census. > > This is a Russian Jewish family in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. > "examiner" seems to be (from other Russian Jewish families I have been researching lately) a step up from Worker or Tailor or Presser or Cutter in clothing manufacture. If you can get the prvious census, or some city directory entries for this person, you will probably find that they worked in a 'shirtwaist' (dress!) factory.