h=home r=rear Gene Stackhouse >From: ColumbusGuy <plugnplaycmh@yahoo.com> >Reply-To: philly-roots@rootsweb.com >To: PHILLY-ROOTS@rootsweb.com >Subject: [Phly-Rts] generic question about Pihla city directories around >1907 >Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 11:10:42 -0700 (PDT) > >Hi, > > The Philadelphia library sent me a copy of a listing from the 1907, 1908 >and 1909 city directories. I'm trying to figure out what a letter "h" >means. > > An example: Thomas Mary h 1936 S. Hick > > Most all of the listings have this letter. It is not a middle initial, >and other listings show a middle initial and it is capitalized. I've also >seen a few listings with the letters "h r". > > Can someone tell me what these letters mean? I suspect "h" means >"house" or "home". > > Thanks > Rich > > >--------------------------------- >Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. >Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. > > >********* >Visit the threaded archives of this list: >http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS >********* > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks Gene Eugene Stackhouse <genestackhouse@msn.com> wrote: h=home r=rear Gene Stackhouse >From: ColumbusGuy >Reply-To: philly-roots@rootsweb.com >To: PHILLY-ROOTS@rootsweb.com >Subject: [Phly-Rts] generic question about Pihla city directories around >1907 >Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 11:10:42 -0700 (PDT) > >Hi, > > The Philadelphia library sent me a copy of a listing from the 1907, 1908 >and 1909 city directories. I'm trying to figure out what a letter "h" >means. > > An example: Thomas Mary h 1936 S. Hick > > Most all of the listings have this letter. It is not a middle initial, >and other listings show a middle initial and it is capitalized. I've also >seen a few listings with the letters "h r". > > Can someone tell me what these letters mean? I suspect "h" means >"house" or "home". > > Thanks > Rich > > >--------------------------------- >Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. >Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. > > >********* >Visit the threaded archives of this list: >http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS >********* > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS ********* ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --------------------------------- Ready for the edge of your seat? Check out tonight's top picks on Yahoo! TV.