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Titel: Help with abbreviation
Skrivet av: Victoria Cihla skrivet 2020-07-16, 22:19
On the attached tax record, there looks like an abbreviation in the notation area - with a bracket around two separate families.  Can anyone tell me what it means?  Are these families farming together?  Looking at the ages of the tenants, they seem to be close in age.  (In the tax records for the following year it appears these two families are still associated in a similar way.)

https://app.arkivdigital.se/volume/v365177?image=2330&page=173

Thanks very much for any help with this,

Vicki Cihla
Titel: SV: Help with abbreviation
Skrivet av: Anti Poika skrivet 2020-07-17, 13:56
This abbreviation is frequently used through the book.
Br. is for "brukar"; att bruka -  to  farm; bruka -  farm.
The next letters sometimes is gst or get and sometimes gt. On page 14 I found the words "Br. gemensamt", so my educated guess of the meaning of this abbreviation is that the people in the list farmed the farm together. What I have found so far, there is no commonly used abbreviation for the word "gemensamt".
Titel: SV: Help with abbreviation
Skrivet av: Victoria Cihla skrivet 2020-07-17, 15:01
Thank you very much for this! 

I thought that might be the case, but really had no idea for certain.

Thank you for all your help,

Vicki Cihla