Today I was looking at the film for Hinzweiler parish for early 1800s. At the side of some birth records are crosses, which obviously indicate deaths. BUT on some, not all of the crosses, there are dots - some have one on the bottom left-hand side of the cross, and some have two - one on the right-hand side and one on the left-hand side of the cross. I assume these dots mean something - but WHAT??? I hope someone has an answer.