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Walter Hinteler
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Sat 28 Jun, 2025 10:33 am
This is an excerpt from the electoral roll of New Orleans (‘Orleans Parish’, 1937).
I wonder what the highlighted abbreviation means? It's in the ‘Race’ column, I interpret the “W” in other entries as ‘white’, but this one?
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thack45 - 06/28/2025
Oh. The handwriting changes after the first 4 rows. They're all "W's". You can see the them in a couple of the last names.
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izzythepush
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Sat 28 Jun, 2025 10:45 am
@Walter Hinteler,
Could it be English or French?
An or Fr?
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thack45
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Sat 28 Jun, 2025 10:53 am
It looks like "Jr." to me.
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Walter Hinteler
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Sat 28 Jun, 2025 10:56 am
@izzythepush,
Well, it is English, I think.
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Walter Hinteler
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Sat 28 Jun, 2025 10:57 am
@thack45,
It's in the "Color" column.
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thack45
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Sat 28 Jun, 2025 11:37 am
@Walter Hinteler,
That wouldn't make much sense then would it? It looks (less so) like "gr."...
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Walter Hinteler
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Sat 28 Jun, 2025 11:45 am
@thack45,
I interpret the ‘W’ in the first four at the top of the list as ‘white’.
What would ‘gr’ mean then? (Or "br", which I read first of all.)
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thack45
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Sat 28 Jun, 2025 11:54 am
Oh. The handwriting changes after the first 4 rows. They're all "W's". You can see the them in a couple of the last names.
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Walter Hinteler
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Sat 28 Jun, 2025 11:57 am
@thack45,
That's it! Thanks very much!!!
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Sat 28 Jun, 2025 12:15 pm
@Walter Hinteler,
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Mame
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Sun 29 Jun, 2025 02:35 pm
@Walter Hinteler,
No, I think it stands for "ditto" - I saw that on an ancestry show once.
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