Quoting Frank Hodgson <frank@hodgson76.freeserve.co.uk>: > I am transcribing 1845 Marriages, June Quarter from handwritten scan > 1845M2-A-0002.jpg > > On a number of different lines there is a strange character (or characters, > I don't know how many), which appears after the District name and before the > > Volume Number. I have read in the Transcribers' Knowledge Base that the > characters "&c" often appears after a District , meaning "and etcetera" and > that this should be transcribed. Because I cannot be sure what these > particular characters are my instinct is to type an asterisk, for example, > Able Elizabeth, Hereford *,XXVI > > However, I suspect that this situation will be repeated in many more scans > in this series so I wonder if anyone could please confirm whether the > character(s) is, in fact, "&c". it is just the ampersand symbol "&" and should be transcribed as such -- Dave Mayall ---------------------------------------------- This mail sent through http://www.ukonline.net