Were these people foreign born?? My guess " Birth Was Foreign" - implying that no naturalization had *yet* been taken place??? If there had been a naturalization then there would be a date. Dorothy At 11:58 AM 1/7/98 -0800, yankee wrote: >I have found these initals BWF in the naturlization column while doing >census research. Can anyone tell me what they stand for? Even though both >records that I found the initals used on were taken in Schuylkill county, >they were from different boros. One was from the 1920 Tamaqua census and >the other from the 1920 Girardville census. The only difference is the >Tamaqua census had BWF citizen listed not just BWF. It apparently was a >standard for something since it was from two different areas or do you think >the census was taken by the same person and that is why the same intials >were used in both boros. Thanks in advance for the help. > >Paula >Ray's Yankee! > >Shake any family tree and a few nuts will fall. > >BECK, BETZ, BRITTON, BRANDAW, CLEMENS,FREY, FRYE, GLEZMAN (GLESSENDER), >GROWNEY, HARTRANFT, HAUCK, HECKMAN, HINKLE,HOLLAR, KELLER,KOCH, KONSAVAGE >(KANCEIWICZ), LINDERMAN, MOORE,MULVANEY, PETREY, QUACKENBUSH, RUTCHKOWSKUS, >SABULSKY, SCHMERFELD, SCHOCK, SHAUP, SHEIPE (SCHEIB),TITTLE, WAGNER, >WILCAVAGE (WILKEWICZ) > > > > >