This is also a standard in German records. There's even a special designation for this in a paper I have showing how to type diacritical marks for various languages. Carol Gebhart MarloStill searching for SLOWEY, DAVIDSON, CLINE/CLYNE From: Marge Rossini via <fermanagh-gold@rootsweb.com> To: caiside <caiside@comcast.net>; fermanagh-gold <fermanagh-gold@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 4, 2015 5:24 PM Subject: Re: FERMANAGH-GOLD Double S Not just in Ireland either: On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 1:52 PM, caiside via <fermanagh-gold@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Taking the opportunity to point out a peculiarity of old script in this > scan. Note the name of the registrar in the far right column, John > Cassidy. Here's an example of a double S written to look like fs. Could > even be mistaken for ps. > >  Janet C > I found the same in the U.S. Census. Slán, Marge in Southern California Searching: Golden, Sullivan, Kelly, Shea, in Kerry and Connecticut O'Connor in Kerry Fee, Cassidy, Gilbride in Fermanagh, Cavan and Connecticut Lynch in Kildare, Limerick and Connecticut Walsh, Stackpole, Garry/Garrey/McGarrey, Donovan, Doyle, Clowney/Clooney, King in Kildare ================================== https://www.google.ie/ ================================== http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/placenames/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FERMANAGH-GOLD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message