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Translation Help - Auke - 01-04-2014
The link doesn't seem to work...
Translation Help - Tommy - 01-04-2014
Oops.
Next try!
Translation Help - Al-muell - 01-05-2014
I'd guess Nikolaievich, but with that handwriting I would have to see a larger sample (at least the rest of the name) to compare letters.
Translation Help - aviator - 01-12-2014
Al-muell Wrote:I'd guess Nikolaievich, but with that handwriting I would have to see a larger sample (at least the rest of the name) to compare letters.
I guess, Nikitievich, or Nikitievna (if female). There are also some other variants of this patrionymic: Nikitovich, Nikitich.
Translation Help - Tommy - 01-14-2014
Gents, i beg your assistance.
To me it says "He currently works / Sole / Economy"
Any help?
Translation Help - Auke - 01-14-2014
"He currently works at his own (one-man) farm.", i.e. not a kolkhoz or sovkhoz.
Translation Help - CtahhR - 01-14-2014
Would that be akin to a croft?
Translation Help - Al-muell - 01-14-2014
I think it's just a non-state-owned farm.
Pardon me ignorance, but what would be a definition of "croft"? I was told years ago at school that it is "Scottish word for farm".
Translation Help - Tommy - 01-14-2014
Al-muell Wrote:I think it's just a non-state-owned farm.
Pardon me ignorance, but what would be a definition of "croft"? I was told years ago at school that it is "Scottish word for farm".
Oxford English Dictionary definition:
a small rented farm, especially one in Scotland, comprising a plot of arable land attached to a house and with a right of pasturage held in common with other such farms.
an enclosed field used for tillage or pasture, typically attached to a house and worked by the occupier.
Translation Help - CtahhR - 01-14-2014
Where I come from (which is certainly not Scotland) a croft is a self-sustaining farm. Where you produce enough for your own domestic needs rather than for commerce.
Sort of like "The Good Life".
Those who know my address know I live on an old Yorkshire croft. It has not been rented since the mid 19th century and was never "enclosed". Far from "self-sustained" these days too. A croft never-the-less and one of many found in rural Yorkshire.