Help to decipher occupation

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Carolyn S.

Help to decipher occupation

Legg inn av Carolyn S. » 19 sep 2006 16:55:31

Am unable to make out the occupation of Robert Moore in the 1900 Justice
Precinct 1, El Paso, Texas census....ED 24, Page 10A. Would appreciate
anyone with access taking a peek and trying to come up with something.
TIA
Carolyn

Robert Melson

Re: Help to decipher occupation

Legg inn av Robert Melson » 19 sep 2006 18:08:11

In article <TpUPg.4020$%y3.3191@tornado.tampabay.rr.com>,
"Carolyn S." <cgsimo@gmail.com> writes:
Am unable to make out the occupation of Robert Moore in the 1900 Justice
Precinct 1, El Paso, Texas census....ED 24, Page 10A. Would appreciate
anyone with access taking a peek and trying to come up with something.
TIA
Carolyn

Carolyn:

Just looked it up on HeritageQuest and can't make heads or tails
out of it. It at first looked like it _might_ be "engraving
portraits", but that doesn't really fit the, ahhh, shape of the
sords. Sorry.

Squinting Ol' Bob

--
Robert G. Melson | Rio Grande MicroSolutions | El Paso, Texas
-----
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to
prove that the other party is unfit to rule---and both commonly succeed,
and are right." ---H. L. Mencken

Carolyn S.

Re: Help to decipher occupation

Legg inn av Carolyn S. » 19 sep 2006 18:23:00

Thanks for the effort Bob. I went back and looked again and I saw where
it 'could' have been engraving portraits, but I have to agree with you
that it doesn't quite fit.
Thanks again,
Carolyn

Robert Melson wrote:
In article <TpUPg.4020$%y3.3191@tornado.tampabay.rr.com>,
"Carolyn S." <cgsimo@gmail.com> writes:
Am unable to make out the occupation of Robert Moore in the 1900 Justice
Precinct 1, El Paso, Texas census....ED 24, Page 10A. Would appreciate
anyone with access taking a peek and trying to come up with something.
TIA
Carolyn

Carolyn:

Just looked it up on HeritageQuest and can't make heads or tails
out of it. It at first looked like it _might_ be "engraving
portraits", but that doesn't really fit the, ahhh, shape of the
sords. Sorry.

Squinting Ol' Bob

Carolyn S.

Re: Help to decipher occupation

Legg inn av Carolyn S. » 19 sep 2006 18:25:11

After looking AGAIN, how about enlarging portraits, Bob. Make sense???


Robert Melson wrote:
In article <TpUPg.4020$%y3.3191@tornado.tampabay.rr.com>,
"Carolyn S." <cgsimo@gmail.com> writes:
Am unable to make out the occupation of Robert Moore in the 1900 Justice
Precinct 1, El Paso, Texas census....ED 24, Page 10A. Would appreciate
anyone with access taking a peek and trying to come up with something.
TIA
Carolyn

Carolyn:

Just looked it up on HeritageQuest and can't make heads or tails
out of it. It at first looked like it _might_ be "engraving
portraits", but that doesn't really fit the, ahhh, shape of the
sords. Sorry.

Squinting Ol' Bob

Robert Melson

Re: Help to decipher occupation

Legg inn av Robert Melson » 19 sep 2006 19:17:01

In article <XJVPg.4035$%y3.1076@tornado.tampabay.rr.com>,
"Carolyn S." <cgsimo@gmail.com> writes:
After looking AGAIN, how about enlarging portraits, Bob. Make sense???


snip


Welllllll, _maybe_. Even with the resolution cranked up to the max
allowed on HQ, it's hard to be sure. For lack of a better option, I'd
say go with that interpretation.

SOB

--
Robert G. Melson | Rio Grande MicroSolutions | El Paso, Texas
-----
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to
prove that the other party is unfit to rule---and both commonly succeed,
and are right." ---H. L. Mencken

Margelyn Carpenter

Re: Help to decipher occupation

Legg inn av Margelyn Carpenter » 19 sep 2006 20:04:06

"Carolyn S." <cgsimo@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:TpUPg.4020$%y3.3191@tornado.tampabay.rr.com...
Am unable to make out the occupation of Robert Moore in the 1900 Justice
Precinct 1, El Paso, Texas census....ED 24, Page 10A. Would appreciate
anyone with access taking a peek and trying to come up with something.
TIA
Carolyn

Using Ancestry search - 1900 US census lists just one Robert Moore - wife
Myrtle - in El Paso, Ward 3, District 23 (p.14 0f 43) and lists his
occupation as Locomotive Engineer.

Marge

Alida Spry

Re: Help to decipher occupation

Legg inn av Alida Spry » 19 sep 2006 22:23:48

"Margelyn Carpenter" <mpcarpe@comcast.net> wrote in message
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"Carolyn S." <cgsimo@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:TpUPg.4020$%y3.3191@tornado.tampabay.rr.com...
Am unable to make out the occupation of Robert Moore in the 1900 Justice
Precinct 1, El Paso, Texas census....ED 24, Page 10A. Would appreciate
anyone with access taking a peek and trying to come up with something.
TIA
Carolyn

Using Ancestry search - 1900 US census lists just one Robert Moore - wife
Myrtle - in El Paso, Ward 3, District 23 (p.14 0f 43) and lists his
occupation as Locomotive Engineer.

Marge


No, there's another Robert Moore on ancestry.com, the one that Carolyn is

asking about.

The next household on that page is John Norton and he is a locomotive
engineer but Robert Moore is not.

It's very hard to read even magnified on ancestry.com but it looks like it
could be "enlarging portraits" but then "portraits" is spelled "potraits".

Have you checked other census years to see what occupation he had then?

Alida

Margelyn Carpenter

Re: Help to decipher occupation

Legg inn av Margelyn Carpenter » 19 sep 2006 23:59:02

"Alida Spry" <a_spry@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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"Margelyn Carpenter" <mpcarpe@comcast.net> wrote in message
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"Carolyn S." <cgsimo@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:TpUPg.4020$%y3.3191@tornado.tampabay.rr.com...
Am unable to make out the occupation of Robert Moore in the 1900 Justice
Precinct 1, El Paso, Texas census....ED 24, Page 10A. Would appreciate
anyone with access taking a peek and trying to come up with something.
TIA
Carolyn


No, there's another Robert Moore on ancestry.com, the one that Carolyn is
asking about.

The next household on that page is John Norton and he is a locomotive
engineer but Robert Moore is not.

It's very hard to read even magnified on ancestry.com but it looks like it
could be "enlarging portraits" but then "portraits" is spelled "potraits".

Have you checked other census years to see what occupation he had then?

Alida
Aha - found the right Robert Moore. I had used "El Paso" as a limiter and

that knocked all the others out apparently.
I agree that his occupation is "enlarging portraits". A quick Google search
found that to be a valid occupation in the 1900 Census for a Punta Gorda FL
man.

Marge

Carolyn S.

Re: Help to decipher occupation

Legg inn av Carolyn S. » 20 sep 2006 02:17:41

I think we guessed good on the 'enlarging portraits. In the 1910 it
lists his occupation as portrait artist. Thanks for everyone's help.
Carolyn

Alida Spry wrote:
"Margelyn Carpenter" <mpcarpe@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:oMydncIugKK5oo3YnZ2dnUVZ_oKdnZ2d@comcast.com...
"Carolyn S." <cgsimo@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:TpUPg.4020$%y3.3191@tornado.tampabay.rr.com...
Am unable to make out the occupation of Robert Moore in the 1900 Justice
Precinct 1, El Paso, Texas census....ED 24, Page 10A. Would appreciate
anyone with access taking a peek and trying to come up with something.
TIA
Carolyn
Using Ancestry search - 1900 US census lists just one Robert Moore - wife
Myrtle - in El Paso, Ward 3, District 23 (p.14 0f 43) and lists his
occupation as Locomotive Engineer.

Marge


No, there's another Robert Moore on ancestry.com, the one that Carolyn is
asking about.

The next household on that page is John Norton and he is a locomotive
engineer but Robert Moore is not.

It's very hard to read even magnified on ancestry.com but it looks like it
could be "enlarging portraits" but then "portraits" is spelled "potraits".

Have you checked other census years to see what occupation he had then?

Alida


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