From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Mon May 8 15:03:17 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k48L3Hjb028447; Mon, 8 May 2006 15:03:17 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k48L2lXF025973 for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 15:02:47 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k48IT0FI022006 for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 14:29:00 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k48IT0Tc022005 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Mon, 8 May 2006 14:29:00 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k48Hc0FI019748 for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 13:38:01 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k48KBbRo020214 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Mon, 8 May 2006 14:11:37 -0600 X-Envelope-From: juanita2@cox.net Mon May 8 14:11:37 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k48KBbjb020205 for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 14:11:37 -0600 Received: from centrmmtao04.cox.net (centrmmtao04.cox.net [70.168.83.80]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k48KBZYN018733 for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 14:11:35 -0600 Received: from DH433L51 ([24.255.150.191]) by centrmmtao04.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20060508201131.PKSR14774.centrmmtao04.cox.net@DH433L51>; Mon, 8 May 2006 16:11:31 -0400 From: "juanita" To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com, "Sharon Pike" Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 15:11:32 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Census - roomer vs boarder vs logder Message-ID: <445F5FA4.657.231DAF40@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <029f01c672d4$951ee160$6601a8c0@state.ky.us> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21c) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Years ago when I was working my first job (out of high school) I rented a sleeping room in a private home. I was considered a lodger. The landlady did not serve meals. I ate all my meals at a boarding house - one that sometimes kept roomers, but most times just provided hot meals, served family style. I bought a meal ticket for 30 days. It cost only $15 for one meal ea. day for a month. They were generous meals too. Imagine today being able to eat on only $15 or $20/mo! My Dad did the same thing. He was a railroad locomotive engineer and when he had to stay out of town, he and the other railroaders, rented rooms usually in small hotels and ate their meals at boarding houses. juanita > I have been transcribing the census for my family > surname. In the 1920 census I find the use of roomer, > lodger and boarder. I once thought they were used > interchangeably but now I don't think so. I found several > households with both lodgers and boarders listed. > What is the difference? > Thanks, > Sharon > > Sharon Pike > Sharon@MeriwetherSociety.org >