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From: Hal Whitmore <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Say . . .
Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 10:00:29 -0400
In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010508043726.009fc910@m2.sprynet.com>

on 5/8/01 5:38 AM, Darrell A. Martin at wrote:


> In a mathematical context I believe the "tilde" ( ~ ) does mean
> "approximately", but in mathematics that implies a very specific range by
> rules that are accepted in the field.
>

and I seem to recall E. S. Mills saying (to use the word loosely, lol) on
this list a year or so ago, that "say" and "circa/about" had relatively
standard meanings in genealogical usage. I have a copy here someplace --
maybe under that stack of census readings or over there under those
photographs....

Hal

This thread:

• [TMG] Circa, verso, omnia Gallia in tres partes . . . by
  • Re: [TMG] Circa, verso, omnia Gallia in tres partes . . . by "Robert G. Lewis" <>
    • RE: [TMG] Circa, verso, omnia Gallia in tres partes . . . by "Jerry Fillebrown" <>
    • RE: [TMG] Circa, verso, omnia Gallia in tres partes . . . by "DeAnna Burghart" <>
      • Re: [TMG] Circa, verso, omnia Gallia in tres partes . . . by "BHarris" <>
        • RE: [TMG] Circa, verso, omnia Gallia in tres partes . . . by "Marty Ryerson" <>
  • [TMG] Say . . . by Allen Mellen <>
    • Re: [TMG] Say . . . by "george legge" <>
      • RE: [TMG] Say . . . by "DeAnna Burghart" <>
        • Re: [TMG] Say . . . by "george legge" <>
        • Re: [TMG] Say . . . by Lee Hoffman <>
        • Re: [TMG] Say . . .how about using "around" date by "E Clardy" <>
      • Re: [TMG] Say . . . by "Cheri Casper" <>
        • Re: [TMG] Say . . . by "Bonita" <>
        • Re: [TMG] Say . . . by "Darrell A. Martin" <>

          • Re: [TMG] Say . . . by Hal Whitmore <>

            • RE: [TMG] Say . . . by "Richard J. Otter" <>
            • RE: [TMG] Say . . . by "Darrell A. Martin" <>
        • Re: [TMG] Say . . . by Mary Lou Bailey <>
        • Re: [TMG] Say . . . by Lee Hoffman <>
      • Re: [TMG] Say . . . by Rob Roy <>
    • Re: [TMG] Say . . . (long) by "Wilfred H. Allan" <>
      • Re: [TMG] Say . . . (long) by "Bonita" <>
      • RE: [TMG] Say . . . (long) by "James H. Holcombe" <>
        • Re: [TMG] Say . . . (long) by "Wilfred H. Allan" <>
      • Re: [TMG] Say . . . (long) by
    • Re: [TMG] Say . . . by
      • Re: [TMG] Say . . . by "Cheri Casper" <>
        • Re: [TMG] Say . . . by Terry Reigel <>
        • Re: [TMG] Say . . . by "Darrell A. Martin" <>
          • [TMG] Report choices by "Anita Jacobson" <>
          • Re: [TMG] Say . . . by Terry Reigel <>
    • Re: [TMG] Say . . . by Karla Huebner <>
    • Re: [TMG] Say . . . by "Pete Hill" <>
    • Re: [TMG] Say . . . by
      • Re: [TMG] Say . . . by "george legge" <>
    • Re: [TMG] Say . . . by
      • Re: [TMG] Say . . . by Mariana <>
      • Re: [TMG] Say . . . by "Darrell A. Martin" <>
        • Re: [TMG] Say . . . by "Cheri Casper" <>
        • Re: [TMG] Say . . . by "Darrell A. Martin" <>
          • Re: [TMG] Say . . . by "Cheri Casper" <>
            • RE: [TMG] Say . . . by "DeAnna Burghart" <>
              • Re: [TMG] Say . . . by "Cheri Casper" <>
        • Re: [TMG] Say . . . by "Joan Thomas" <>
          • Re: [TMG] Say . . . by "Chuck Wolfram" <>
            • Re: [TMG] Say . . . by "Cheri Casper" <>
    • Re: [TMG] Say . . . by
      • Re: [TMG] Say . . . includes wish list item by "Darrell A. Martin" <>
      • OOPS [TMG] Say . . . includes wish list item by "Darrell A. Martin" <>
  • Re: [TMG] Circa, verso, omnia Gallia in tres partes . . . by "Dennis L. Bright" <>
    • RE: [TMG] Circa, verso, omnia Gallia in tres partes . . . by "DeAnna Burghart" <>
  • RE: [TMG] Circa, verso, omnia Gallia in tres partes . . . by