What Do Those Initials Mean? Initials after your ancestor's names may provide useful information that you'd not expected. The following list includes initials you may come across when reading old wills or other documents. a.a.s. died in the year of his/her age (anno aetitis suae) (86 y/o or died in year 86 of his/her life) d.s.p. died without issue (decessit sine prole legitima) d.s.p.l. died without legitimate issue (decessit sine prole mascula supesita) d.s.p.m.s. died without surviving male issue (decessit sine prole mascula supersita) d.s.p.s died without surviving issue (decessit sine prole supersita) d.unm died unmarried d.v.p. died in the lifetime of his father (decessit vita patris) d.v.m. died in the lifetime of his mother (decessit vita matris) Et al and others (et alia) Inst present month (instans) Liber book or volume Nepos grandson Nunc Nuncapative will, an oral will, written by a witness Ob he/she died (obit) Relict widow or widower (relicta/relictus) Sic so or thus, exact copy as written Testes witnesses Utl late (ultimo) Ux or vs wife (uxor) Viz namely (videlicet) -------------------------------- End of TXNACOGD-D Digest V00 Issue #56 ************************************** From [email protected] Tue Aug 1 19:16:41 2000 Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from lists6.rootsweb.com (lists6.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.125]) by listsearches.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e722Gfw19376 for <[email protected]>; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 19:16:41 -0700 Received: (from [email protected]) by lists6.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e722GgF14954 for [email protected]; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 19:16:42 -0700 Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 19:16:42 -0700 Message-Id: <[email protected]> From: [email protected] Subject: TXNACOGD-D Digest V00 #56 X-Loop: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/volume00/56 Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" To: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] ------------------------------ Content-Type: text/plain TXNACOGD-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 56 Today's Topics: #1 What do those initials mean [Juanetta Powers <[email protected]>] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from TXNACOGD-D, send a message to [email protected] that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too.