----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Can you help remove an obsession that has caused six people to get nothing else done all day? Please? We are searching for a copy of the map that accompanied the 1915 Farm Journal Farmer's Directory of Richland County, Ohio. Perhaps another map by this company will suffice. The directory lists the names of people living in Richland County and the expected data about them, coded in a reasonable fashion. But then it adds from 2 to 5 lower-case letters at the end of most entries, which look something like this: eldd; or bbd; or cdd; or crud; or ud; or buld; or meld; etc. The abbreviations key in the front of the book fails to explain these letters, which always end in the letter d. Not every entry ends with a string of such letters (most do, however) and there are dozens of different groupings, rarely repeating. I suppose I cannot give enough information for any bright minds out there to come up with the solution. But if anyone has a copy of the map would they see if there is anything on it that makes any sense of this? Map coordinates seems pretty unlikely, but there might be some other explanation evident. Thanks! Bill Barrow [log in to unmask]