>profession) are understandable. however, after giving what the person >does for a living, there are three codes, obviously state or country >codes, i.e. "NC", "SC", "Scot". my question is this: what do these >three state/country codes stand for? i could guess at maybe 'place of >birth' or 'place of residence', but what about the third one? can >someone on the list tell me what these three state codes (only a few are >for a country) denote? birthplace, father's birthplace, mother's birthplace, in that order >From your other message, what is K/H after the wife's name, my guess is that it's "keeping house", i.e. her occupation. Elizabeth Harris state coordinator, NCGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncgenweb/