On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 14:42:28 -0400, singhals <singhals@erols.com> wrote: >On the West coast of the pond, back in the 18th and 19th >centuries, people's "marks" are frequently registered in a >deed book where they live. > >Is that true on the East Coast of the pond? IOW -- I have a >signature mark of a man in Maryland in the 1750s; I'd like >to confirm/refute that he's the same person as a man of the >same name in England earlier for whom I can find no >signature. Is there some way to find the "mark" of the 2nd man? As most of the "marks" are X, it would be difficult to tell. -- Steve Hayes Web: http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com/ http://hayesgreene.blogspot.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/afgen/