Hi Kate, It's &c, sometimes with and sometimes without a full stop after it. Bill Hounslow http://www.boincsynergy.com/images/stats/comb-2147.jpg >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Kate McCain [mailto:kate.mccain@cis.drexel.edu] >>Sent: 03 September 2005 17:18 >>To: FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com >>Subject: seeking suggestion for translating 1846 handwritten entries >> >>I am currently transcribing handwritten entries from 1846. I have managed >>the "L that looks like an S" and similar oddities but one thing has me >>stumped. A few districts (e.g. Ashton, Hereford) have a single character >>following the district name that looks like something between an S and an >>&. Does anyone know what that character is? >> >>I notice that in the typed lists available from commercial vendors like >>Genealogy.com, this is translated as &c but that may simply be the >>typist's >>code for "I don't know what this character is." >> >>I'd really like to type what I see, but my choices seem to be either [S&] >>or _ . If anyone knows what the convention was back then for extending >>the >>names of some districts, and thus what I should be entering, please let me >>know. >> >>Kate McCain >> >> >>==== FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List ==== >>Need to get a fast answer to your transcribing problems? Go to the >>Transcribers Knowledge Base at http://FreeBMD.RootsWeb.com/vol_faq.html >> >>============================== >>New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors >>at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: >>http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599& >>targetid=5429 >> >>-- >>No virus found in this incoming message. >>Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >>Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.18/89 - Release Date: 02/09/2005 >> -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.18/89 - Release Date: 02/09/2005