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From: "dbosl" <>
Subject: [POSEN] Cross on Baptism Records
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 17:50:47 -0400


During a review of a microfilm of church records for a parish in the Gniezno
Archdiocese
of Poland we noted that some baptisms had a strange cross in the page
margin. In this case the cross was formed by a vertical line and two
parallel horizontal lines. There was no date or other information next to
the cross. We have previously seen a simple cross with a date in margins of
churchbooks to indicate when the person died even if it was years later. We
have not previously encountered a cross with double lines.
Has anyone an explanation?
Thankyou, Erna

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