spms refers not to places, but to the Latin terms describing the dying without male heirs much like when we used d.y. to mean died young. clear as mud? W. David Samuelsen DC & Alice Allen wrote: > I seem to remember, way back when I was a newbie genealogist, that we abbreviated county names if they were long. Usually 4 letters, often leaving out the vowels. This may be an abbreviation of England's equivelant of a county. > > Looking at my mother-in-law's Book of Remembrance, she has some family group sheets copyrighted 1972, with a separate column for county that is very, very small. There are also group sheets copyrighted 1941 which has one column for city and county, and a separate column for state or country. > > Alice Allen > Oakhurst Ward Family History Consultant > Vancouver WA Stake > Portland OR Temple District > > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > > On 4/14/2009 at 5:33 AM slandersen51@att.net wrote: > >> A web search shows this info at this site >> >> http://www.webpak.net/~cdm2/kimball/pafg75.htm Perhaps you can get in >> touch with this person and see if they know what or where "Spsm" is. I >> wonder if it might be a battle field. >> >> Susan Andersen, Lancaster, Ohio >> >> > > > > > Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >