>Up until the early 1800's, double S's within words (not those at the >beginning and usually not those at the end) were written in a fashion >that is hard to describe without seeing them and I can't reproduce them >on a keyboard/typewriter. But folks today who are unfamiliar with the >history of writing almost always confuse these with a double F. It DOES >look like a written, lower-case f. But it is NOT. That is just the way >double S's were written then. All too often, I see printed info today by... To Sasser-List, This looks like the case alright. I have documentation with the first "S" of the double "S's" in the name Sasser looking much like a written "F". Cordially, Earl Sasser ewsass@writeme.com