On 1/8/2013 3:15 PM, AGilchrest@aol.com wrote: > I just have to share. I was just putting my Great Aunts death certificate > in by database. Her occupation of her death certificate from Pennsylvania is > "retired spinster." I am still laughing. > > In the 1935 Florida state census, in an example I use on my talk on "Quirks in the Florida State Census," there is one man whose occupation was listed as "lobster." I'm sure he was a lobsterman, and the enumerator didn't have enough room for the qualifying suffix "-man." But it's certainly good for a laugh. Karen Packard Rhodes Currently residing in Pinellas Park, Pinellas County, Florida