Genealogical Symbol: backward S

[Eleesavet]

Guy,

Broken lineage. Certainly worth considering.  Unfortunately I dont have enough information to know for certain if that is the case.  When I have sight of the tree I may be better placed to research further. 

Nainmaddie,

Thank you for reading the replies.

I think I saw an example of the squiggly line you refer to on the internet.  The one I saw was horizontal and I wondered if that is what the Chartist had drawn but in the vertical position.

Liz

[Ruskie]

I would be interesting to see what other symbols are used on the chart. Do you know when the chart was made?

I'm sure Guy must be correct:

Back in the mists of time (1950s) we used a reversed S to indicate a broken lineage.
I.E. The person was descended from another shown person but not directly the intervening generations being missing.

We also used a ≠ (an equals sign with a line through it) to show a couple in a relationship were not married and their offspring (issue) connected with a broken line - - - .
Cheers
Guy

I'd like to know if the use of the symbol makes sense in this context? I suppose it may be that the person was incorrect in some of their findings as well, so used symbols 'incorrectly'.

This has a similar meaning to the electrical symbol suggested at the beginning of the thread. When I write up notes I use the '=' sign to denote a marriage.

If anyone can point me in the right direction (website perhaps?) I would be very interested to learn other 'genealogical' symbols. I know that surnames should be written in all upper case. Are there any other written or unwritten 'rules'?

[majm]

Clunky JM here as JMs ISP is OOO

The chartist IF using the reverse S  ie the S as in sinister S deliberately with the illeg meaning BUT he then  failed to use Dash lines  Sory that simply does NOT give me confidence that he is using a Reverse S ... In fact I think it supports the break line ... ....  Pehaps another reason for my thoughts that this  is NOT a reverse S

Cheers JM  PS I think 2003 was mentioned re date of chart

[majm]

STill clunky

BUT still deep in thought

The house pet has a name ...  Felix. 

Felix drinks milk.  Cats drink milk.

Is Felix a cat?

Answer ... on the available information, it is not known If Felix is a cat. What is known is that Felix is a house pet.

THUS
Is the symbol indicaing anything significant re family history ?  On the available information ... No... not yet!

Cheers JM

[Eleesavet]

Hi All,

RedMystic very kindly sent me copies of the chart by e-mail.  She sent two slides of the whole chart and also other slides of the same chart but broken down into bigger sections for ease of reading. 

I e-mailed RedMystic asking if she would post the above two slides on this thread (I haven't been able to download before so thought it quicker to ask her).  But In my haste to show you the chart, I'll attempt to download.

Here goes.  The writing is small but you can make out lines, symbols etc and a key.

Also you will see the name of the Chartist: Alexander MacIntosh, Edinburgh, 2003.  Googled AM, thought I had found him, e-mailed and received a reply - wrong guy.  Should we seek him out?

Liz

[Eleesavet]

Wow, I actually managed to do it.  I'm impressed.

[RedMystic]

Wow, I actually managed to do it. I'm impressed.

Congrats Elseevet! (I'd put in an applauding emoticon here if we had one as I know the joys of being a techno-peasant that overcomes a technology hurdle. )

Now give it a go with the right side of the page (the 2nd one on the same e-mail as this one came from) as that's the one with the backward S. You go girl!!

[Eleesavet]

Thanks for the encouragement RedMystic.

The second half of the chart.

If you open the blue link with paper clip below the attached chart in this reply you may be able to download both halves onto your computer (at least I can on mine).

Fingers crossed.

Liz

[Ruskie]

Well it doesn't look like the mystery symbol and lines are to fill in white spaceas there is plenty of that on the page ....    ...