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Submitted by Peter Zimmer

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Category: Translation - German
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I am trying to find out what the professsion/job of Simon Lang was. It is the word following Simon Lang. To me it is something like "GASTBR". It is taken from my gg-grandmother's birth certificate from Prague in 1871.

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8/6/2016 3:22 PM Gastgbr.

It is the abbreviation of the word "Gastgeber" (host)

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