This makes sense from the concept of "room and board". If meals were included with the concept of roomer, the word "board" would be redundnat. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: WILLIAM RUTH <ruth4374@msn.com> To: <IOWA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 6:56 PM Subject: [IOWA] Previous email about the meaning of relation terms on the census > This is the response I got from Helen. She looked up the terms in the dictionary I think. > > Thanks to everyone who responded. > Kathy > > > > Boarder--one who is supplied with meals > > Lodger--one who lives in hired quarters in another's house > > Roomer--a lodger. > > They are much the same, but I would suspect that a lodger and a roomer had > to get their own meals somewhere else and all they had was a room. > > > ==== IOWA Mailing List ==== > The IOWA Lists now have their own website with unsub > instructions, list rules and other useful information. > Visit & Bookmark http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > >