Clarification please regarding the double 's' i.e.In the District Rofs. Where you can plainly see the letter 'f' followed by an 's' do we transcribe it as 'fs' or 'ss'. Have checked through old messages and cannot find a specific answer can somebody point me to where the answer lies. Thanks Keith

Recently covered on the FreeBMD-DISCUSS list - part of correspondence pasted in below. Write it as Ross. [The district centred on Ross-on-Wye.] Jeff ==== Quoting Keith Sayers > At 02:00 AM 29/04/05 -0600, Dave Mayall wrote: > > >Back in 1847 there were two ways of writing the letter "s". One is the > >modern version, the other (the "long s") looks more like an "f". > > Out of curiosity, how did they write an 'f'? Supposing they did > get > an 'fs' how would they write it - and we recognise it? If you look closely, the "long s" is usually formed without the crossbar of the "f", or with a half-crossbar on the left only. -- Dave Mayall ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Simpson" <Keylotus@ukonline.co.uk> To: <FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 3:32 PM Subject: Double S > Clarification please regarding the double 's' i.e.In the District Rofs. > Where you can plainly see the letter 'f' followed by an 's' do we > transcribe > it as 'fs' or 'ss'. > Have checked through old messages and cannot find a specific answer can > somebody point me to where the answer lies. > Thanks > Keith > > > > > ==== FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List ==== > Want to help FreeBMD? > Go to http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/Signup.html to find out how. > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >