sic means a mis spelt name. BUT it means that you didn't do it, it was there. eg. tommy smith, dyed 2.1.34, toowoomba. you see this on a headstone. you retype it as... tommy smith, dyed (sic) 2.1.34, toowoomba. this tells us that YOU are not the klutz who cannot spell died, it was someone else. if you are quoting john howard .... john wrote that twenty kids livved in toowoomba in 1820. you repeat it with twenty kids livved (sic) in toowoomba in 1820. undercunstumble? robyndehood. ----- Original Message ----- From: "michelle edwards" <shelledwards@dodo.com.au> To: <AUSTRALIA-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 8:48 PM Subject: [[AUS-CEM]] Headstone Inscriptions > I am currently reading headstone transciptions and I am not sure what (sic) in brackets means, whether it be something the trancribers have done themselves or actually on the headstone... > > Anyone have any ideas? > > Michelle > > > ==== AUSTRALIA-CEMETERIES Mailing List ==== > ================================================================== > "Please "do not" post virus warnings to the list. > ================================================================== > Hey have you updated your AntiVirus program lately ? ? > Is your AV continuously activated while online ? ? > Does your AV continue to check each and every email as it is down loaded ? ? > Does your AV continue to check every Website you inter into ? ? > Better to be safe than sorry . . . let HouseCall check out your system FREE ! > http://housecall.antivirus.com/. > other sites you might want to check out . . . > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~clifflamere/Aid/AID-VirusProtect.ht m > -this one mentioned in Missing Links Vol. 5 No. 44 http://antivirus.cai.com/ > - this one was mentioned on the Listowner List > http://www.grisoft.com/html/us_index.cfm > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >