Thanks for the suggestion Lynne - but no I don't think it's a formatting error. The printed tree concerned is in a book and contains over 70 names. The odd thing is that in one family of nine children, seven of them are shown as married, with four of the seven using the symbol 'm' and the other three using this 'm with a forward slash superimposed' The same symbol occurs in other families BUT not in all cases in the same family. -------------------------------------------------- From: "Lynne Ingalls" <Lynne.Ingalls@comcast.net> Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 4:05 PM To: <midlothian@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [MIDLOTHIAN] Symbolism in Family Trees > Tony - It sound like a formatting error, perhaps particular to Family > Tree > Maker software. > > Lynne in Tucson > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tony Burton" <burton-tony@sky.com> > To: <MIDLOTHIAN@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 7:57 AM > Subject: [MIDLOTHIAN] Symbolism in Family Trees > > >> Hi list, A bit of technical information if anyone can help please. I >> have recently come across a printed Family Tree where the various >> marriages are shown in three ways. >> 1. Fred Bloggs m Lovely Rita 2. Fred Bloggs = Lovely Rita 3. >> Fred >> Bloggs m/ Lovely Rita (In this third instance the forward slash is >> superimposed on top of the small letter m, as if crossing it out.) >> >> The first two formats I have come across before but not the third. I'm >> wondering if this indicates a marriage that ended in divorce ? If not, >> can anyone please tell me what it does indicate ? Many thanks and best >> wishes, Tony Burton. >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> MIDLOTHIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MIDLOTHIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Tony - Sometimes when I'm entering family into software, I forget which symbol I used from one to another generation. My software has a space for those who were later divorced, so I can show the marriage, the date, and then the divorce. Lynne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Burton" <burton-tony@sky.com> To: <midlothian@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 8:35 AM Subject: Re: [MIDLOTHIAN] Symbolism in Family Trees > Thanks for the suggestion Lynne - but no I don't think it's a formatting > error. The printed tree concerned is in a book and contains over 70 > names. > The odd thing is that in one family of nine children, seven of them are > shown as married, with four of the seven using the symbol 'm' > and the other three using this 'm with a forward slash superimposed' The > same symbol occurs in other families BUT not in all cases in the same > family. > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Lynne Ingalls" <Lynne.Ingalls@comcast.net> > Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 4:05 PM > To: <midlothian@rootsweb.com> > Subject: Re: [MIDLOTHIAN] Symbolism in Family Trees > >> Tony - It sound like a formatting error, perhaps particular to Family >> Tree >> Maker software. >> >> Lynne in Tucson >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Tony Burton" <burton-tony@sky.com> >> To: <MIDLOTHIAN@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 7:57 AM >> Subject: [MIDLOTHIAN] Symbolism in Family Trees >> >> >>> Hi list, A bit of technical information if anyone can help please. I >>> have recently come across a printed Family Tree where the various >>> marriages are shown in three ways. >>> 1. Fred Bloggs m Lovely Rita 2. Fred Bloggs = Lovely Rita 3. >>> Fred >>> Bloggs m/ Lovely Rita (In this third instance the forward slash is >>> superimposed on top of the small letter m, as if crossing it out.) >>> >>> The first two formats I have come across before but not the third. I'm >>> wondering if this indicates a marriage that ended in divorce ? If not, >>> can anyone please tell me what it does indicate ? Many thanks and best >>> wishes, Tony Burton. >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> MIDLOTHIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> MIDLOTHIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MIDLOTHIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

> -----Original Message----- > From: Tony Burton > Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 11:36 AM > Subject: Re: [MIDLOTHIAN] Symbolism in Family Trees A shot in the dark Tony, but nothing ventured, nothing gained ... Where do your BURTONs originate? Cheers ~ Toni