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From: "Caroline DE BRUIN" <>
Subject: Re: [ZA-EC] Symbols
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:05:25 +0200
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Hi, i hope i can join in.
Here is a French Genealogicul Symbols used here in Europe, but i
like the South Africain way!

Its always very interesting to learn how other countries do different things.

Regards Caroline
Belgium

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Tombi Peck <> wrote:
> 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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