Pam, I went out to look for you the entry you asked about and it appears to be UN which I would take to mean unavailable. My guess is that the 80+ year old mother was answering the questions and did not know the answer when asked about the dwelling. As far as I know there were only two entries to be made in Column 7 and that was "R" or "O". Harry > I was very excited to find my ancestor MADELINE S. PHILLIPS and her > daughter ETHEL N. PHILLIPS in the 1930 D.C. census on page 12, enumeration > Dist. 300, sheet 12-A, thanks to a genealogy friend. However, there is one > entry that I can't figure out. In the column #s 7 & 8 each person is asked > "Home owned or rented" and "Value of home". All the replies are either > "R" for rent or "O" for own. My ancestor's entry is completely different. I > can't really decipher what it is but it may be "Um", "Nu" or something > similar in appearance. Has anyone found a different entry for their ancestor > in these columns? Can anyone venture a guess as to what the symbol could > represent? What other options were represented? How might I find out what all > the options were? > Thanks for any help in solving this puzzle. > Pam > > > ============================== > 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 > > >