[Genealib] Religious abbreviation

[Dave Fiske]

A transcribed version of the "People's Guide" is
online
at http://www.rootsweb.com/~inhendri/data.html,
and the county volunteers who maintain this site
have included a search capability for the documents
they have online.

Searching "slim" finds only some documents that
reference people with the nickname "Slim" and
the "People's Guide" section for Center Township.
G.W. Arnold is the only person in the People's Guide
whose religion is listed as "Slim."

The Arnolds listed above and below G.W. are "Regular
Baptists."

I'm thinking this is either a typo, and was meant to
be something like "same," or that, if people were
queried as to their religion, that this person replied
"slim," meaning he (other documents at the site
would suggest that G.W. stands for George W.) wasn't
very religious.

At any rate, it would seem unlikely that there would
be a denomination with only one member in the whole
county.

David Fiske   dfiskehiker at yahoo.com


--- Reann Poray <RPoray at plainfield.lib.in.us> wrote:

> Does anyone know what religious denomination the
> abbreviation "Slim."
> refers to?  
> 
> One of our patrons has an ancestor whose
> denomination was listed as
> "Slim." (1874 People's Guide to Hendricks County,
> IN.)  All the other
> denominations are standard-Baptist, Lutheran,
> Quaker, Methodist,
> Presbyterian...and then there is Slim.  The book has
> no reference to the
> abbreviations.
> 
> Thanks,
> Reann Poray
> Librarian, Indiana Room
> Plainfield-Guilford Township Public Library
> Plainfield, Indiana
> 
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