Tom, Looks like 334 to me. William Glendinning. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Olenio" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 5:28 PM Subject: [RIPROVID] Pocasset Avenue > Hi, > > I am trying to do a reverse look-up in history that pertains to a Providence RI. I > think I was looking for the wrong address (mistaking a 2 for a 3). > > To figure out what an official wrote on a 1905 ship manifest I decided I should look > at how the author of that manifest wrote the numbers 2 and 3 elsewhere on the > manifest, to see if that would help decipher what I was looking at. > > Looking at the complete manifest, lines 8 and 10, you can see the ages of some the > immigrants. The first is 23 and the second 24 years of age. Both having examples > of the numbers 2 and 3. > > http://www.sentex.net/~tolenio/napolitan.gif > > The 2's are very distinct from the 3's. > > So now I wonder if the address I should be looking for is; 334 Pocasset Ave; > > http://www.sentex.net/~tolenio/POCASSET.gif > > Never thought I would need to learn handwriting analysis, but something that rookies > like me should think > about when picking up only small bits of information off old manifests. > > Opinions anyone? Is it 334 or 234 or something else? > > Later, > Tom > > -- > Thomas Olenio > Ontario, Canada > Hardiness Zone 6a > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >