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From: "Tombi Peck" <>
Subject: Re: [ZA-EC] Symbols
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:44:35 +0100
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Geoff Chew's explanation that the plus should actually be a cross rather
than a plus makes so much more sense!!
Glad we were both seeing things from the same point of view!
Best wishes,
Tombi
----- Original Message -----
From: "patfryk" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 10:27 PM
Subject: Re: [ZA-EC] Symbols


>I have never been able to follow that system, Tombi. I have a couple of
> newly researched ancestors who went before the a. I asked once should they
> be in reverse like a+ or a minus.
> I transpose this kind of info into either a drop down chart which is
> instantly visible and traceable but gets clumsy and big, or a descendent
> tree because you can then add those who went before without muddling (to
> use
> an acceptable word) up the system.
> I don't know of others except Heese and Co who use this. Did he invent
> it?Is
> it customary in Europe? Or only in SAfrica?
> I can see the point of X for marriage or = because it is a symbol and not
> abbreviation therefore comprehensible in any language. But it would have
> to
> be a universal global system.
> It's the a, b, c, d which I have to keep referring to in the notes.Takes
> forever.
> Patricia
>
> -----
> From: "Tombi Peck" <>
>> Hi,
>> The South African symbols are so odd....why have a + for a
>> death!!............
> > Surely it would have been more logical to have a + for a birth and a -
> for a
>> death....who decided on these symbols?!!!!
>> How long has this system been in place...
>>
>
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