In a message dated 14/11/2007 08:13:47 GMT Standard Time, [email protected] writes: I am transcribing some records for Sunderland marriages. Can someone tell me what ?Ped is an abbreviation for? Cheers Wendy Wendy: That doesn't sound like anything I have seen as a regular abbreviation in a parish register. Can you give us some better idea of the context? ie which part of the resord "Ped" appears in? and the date of the record? For a genealogist "Ped" might be short for "pedigree" but that is hardly likely to occur in an original register. I assume you are transcribing from the original or from a microfilm or photocopy of it - there's no point at all in transcribing from a transcript! If so, and if this is part of some serious transcription project, then why not ask whoever is organising the project (Record Office? Library? NDFHS?). Are you sure it is not just "Pd" - for "paid" - ie the fees had been paid? Geoff Nicholson