Do you always read and understand what is crowded into the edge or bottom of a document? If something is squeezed into a small space, there is probably a reason. Sometimes that reason is a legal banality and other times it is a genealogical gem.
You won’t know if you don’t read it and determine what it means.
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I always wondered what some of the information meant.I’ve started writing down the words I don’t know and look them up in a real dictionary. Thank u.
I once found a woman listed on line 3 on a manifest with her 3 children listed underneath her. her married name was the name I thought I was looking for, underneath her name in fine pencil script said; ” line 16 sister”. Sister on line 16 was not married, under her name in pencil script read; ” line 3 sister” . I found the married woman”s name maiden. I was also looking for this name. What a find, I also found their fathers name listed on the single womans line 16.