This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2RB.2ACE/8531 Message Board Post: Can anyone tell me what the following abbreviations from an entry in the 1918 American Agriculturist Farm Directory mean?: SANTIMAN, A.J. (Stella) 2ch farmer (milk) WOS 84a rd2 Massena Massena tn H10 Thanks. Kelly Santiman

>Can anyone tell me what the following abbreviations from an entry in the >1918 American Agriculturist Farm Directory mean?: > >SANTIMAN, A.J. (Stella) 2ch farmer (milk) WOS 84a rd2 Massena Massena tn H10 > >Thanks. > >Kelly Santiman 2ch = 2 children; (milk) = dairy farmer; WOS= Works on Shares; 84a = 84 acres; rd2= rural delivery (mail) route 2; Massena tn = physically lives in town of Massena [as opposed to living in a neighboring town, but having a Massena mailing address]; H10=Highway 10, as keyed on a map that came with the book [St. Lawrence County Historical Association, Canton, has copies of the map]. Norm >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.6/337 - Release Date: 5/11/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.6/337 - Release Date: 5/11/2006