<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">So that would explain the 4's written in over my crossed out Chi codes, but I know I had one page where it seemed obvious to me M had been crossed out and an S that looked very much like 7, as did most of that writer's S's for single. I wonder if that was one of the things I got dinged for yesterday I didn't agree with?<div><br></div><div>Like I say I will call the loooong dashes ditto marks, but it's wrong.</div><div><br></div><div>les<br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 4/8/12, W David Samuelsen <i><dsam52@sampubco.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: W David Samuelsen <dsam52@sampubco.com><br>Subject: Re: [or-roots] to ditto or not to ditto<br>To: "or-roots mail list" <or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us><br>Date: Sunday, April 8, 2012, 6:17 PM<br><br><div
class="plainMail">observe what is in the line just above. That's it. No dash above, no ditto.<br><br>Married or Single or Unknown (usually really blank) or Widowed, use zoom <br>in if necessary. It is not always crossed off and marked S because it is <br>"7" in Bureau coding.<br><br>I have one family, head is marked as crossed M and 7 written above, but <br>is he married, divorced, or widowed? It does not say.<br><br>I had another one, where it was crossed and "Wd" written above.<br><br>Anytime you see 7, ignore and use what was written before it was crossed.<br><br>There was a surname no one got right in one batch and I didn't get it <br>right either because in next batch it was spelled very clearly as <br>Steiner. The wrong ones? Steiver and Steimer. Duh!<br><br>There are some situtations, you can't win.<br><br>It's the researchers who are ones who can send in feedback. We can do <br>same when the indexes come out. Those Arbitration
Results batches are <br>your sources.<br><br>David<br></div></blockquote></div></td></tr></table>