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Re: Transcriber Needs Help
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Westview <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:01:38 -0400
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Tom,

I agree with Don about it being written phonetically --- you mention New Orleans, was the family Cajun?  I know the Cajuns have some "interesting" expressions.

kathy
 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tom Gilmore 
  To: [log in to unmask] 
  Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 5:58 PM
  Subject: [VA-ROOTS] Transcriber Needs Help


  In transcribing a letter written by a Civil War soldier to a relative in New
  Orleans, I'm stuck on a sentence in which he  refers to "the fauksokutters"

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