Question about abbreviated places of birth and/or Departure-Arrival locations
in Indexing
Canada—Border Entry Lists, 1908–1918[ Batch MSYY-2FB]
In this batch, I have people born in Mass. I didn't know if it could be presumed to be Massachusetts or not.
The next was an arrival destination of C B
I found this reference online. C.-B. - French abbreviation for Columbia-Britannique
Do you suppose that would be the abbreviation?
One learns a great deal of history when indexing.
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Good work! C B is the alternate abbreviation for British Columbia, or Columbia-Britannique, and Mass is the correct abbreviation for Massachusetts.
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I thought CB stood for Cape Breton and apparently so do many others. Oh dear.
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It could. It could also stand for Conception Bay. Maybe it should be left as CB unless there is a pattern.
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