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Herb. or Herbt. in old records is an abbreviation of the first name Herbert.
Herb. and Herbt. are clerks' shortenings of Herbert. Name lists give both, and in Herbt. the final t was often written small and raised above the line.
Today Herb is a nickname, but Herb. with a period in an old record is the clerk's abbreviation of the full name. Search an index under both forms.
As seen in a recordName and relationship columns of the 1880 census
Herbt. Langworthy, 12, Son
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