The pleasures mine. For whatever reason, many of my family lines have been associated with the Methodist faith, with several being ministers. Mike In a message dated 12/3/2003 8:09:43 PM Central Standard Time, dorothyhc@comcast.net writes: > You are correct. Reading down the census page some of the people have > "Bapt" > or "Meth" in the occupation column. It does not appear to have anything to > do with occupation but for some reason the census taker recorded religious > preferences! I have never seen that before. > Thanks for pointing out something new! > Dorothy >