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From: "Darrell A. Martin" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Latin abbreviations and "died without issue"
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 07:13:57 -0500
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At 07:33 PM 6/30/02 -0400, Philip Gunyon wrote:
>The other day a question came up about how to record the fact that a person
>died without issue.
>
>It triggered in my mind a list I had seen somewhere. I have just found it in
>Angus Baxter's "In Search of Your British & Irish Roots". While I don't
>intend personally to begin using them, others may find them useful and may
>find ingenious ways to use them. I hope I won't infringe Baxter's copyright
>or bore too many readers if I list them here.

Working from fading memory (no, not of speaking Latin as
my native tongue [grin]):

>d.s.p = Decessit sine prole (Died without issue)
>d.s.p.l.= Decessit sine legitima (Died without legitimate issue)

Should be, "Decessit sine prole legitima"

>d.s.p.m. = Decessit mascula (Died without male issue)

Should be, "Decessit sine prole mascula"

>d.s.p.s. = Decessit sine superslita (Died without surviving issue)

Should be, "Decessit sine prole superslita";
"d.s.v.p." is perhaps more common for roughly
the same meaning


>aetas age
[snip]

Darrell


Darrell A. Martin
a native Vermonter currently in exile in Addison, Illinois



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