Thanks for the comment Jim and of course for the excellent work. Bill Melbourne Oz jbundy48@verizon.net wrote: > Hi Listers, > > Before I send out this ED, I need to let you know just how unusually this > enumerator approached his task. First, birthplace detail tends to be > cryptic, although at times has more detail than usual, as in a few cases > mentioning the county in Ireland of birth. Usually though, its just a parish > or sometimes just a village name, with no county. > > The strangest habit though is that if the head of household is a coal miner, > then his spouse and all his childreb, sometimes down to infants, are coal > miners also! Obviously not the case. > > Well, at least he remembered to fill his pen with ink, which is more than I > can says for some. Smile emoticon > > Jim > >