[PW] Re: ?meaning of FA = Fatilognist

[John P. Dyson]

Quoting Autumn Trenton <autumntree at hotmail.com>:

> My father, who has plenty of experience transcribing censuses and other
> older records, suggested it's a mistranscription of "Tobacconist."  The
> record is from Georgia, after all.


How does your father define tobacconist? Why is a tobacconist more 
likely in Georgia than, say, in Minnesota? Maybe more likely than in 
Utah, but otherwise I don't see it.

John Dyson
Spanish and Portuguese
Indiana University