[or-roots] to ditto or not to ditto

[CeCe Moore]

What do the "R"s mean BTW?
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-----Original Message-----
From: Leslie Chapman <opera_70 at yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2012 23:56:42 
To: <or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us>
Subject: [or-roots] to ditto  or not to ditto

That is just my point David, to me it is very clear the meaning of the looooooong dash is not ditto and I feel like it is confusing the process to repeat the line above, the record I am looking at now the line above was R, and there are four more R's directly above that, if he had meant an R, he would have entered one and since to enter data there is wrong it seem silly to me to say "all" dashes mean ditto. For some unknown reason this guy used a lot of space filling dashes on the page, at least that is how I would interpret the two dashes he put in column 24 and 25 under two lines of empty space, I am pretty sure ditto marks aren't necessary for empty space. I guess it really doesn't matter one way or the other since it is going to be obviously wrong to have someone residing somewhere 4 years before they were born so I will treat them as ditto marks if it will keep my score up.


As to the "7" CC mentioned, she might want to look at it real close, I had one of those and after some study realized it was meant to be a S for single.


Les

--- On Sun, 4/8/12, W David Samuelsen <dsam52 at sampubco.com> wrote:

From: W David Samuelsen <dsam52 at sampubco.com>
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Another arbitration question
To: "or-roots mail list" <or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us>
Date: Sunday, April 8, 2012, 1:53 PM


repeat what the above line says.

"If ditto marks or other signs of repetition were written in this field, 
type the information from the previous record."  This would be very true 
if 5 years or older. I've seen some slipped past below 5 years old.

David