Abbreviations in genealogy

In work of Genealogy, as well on behalf of professionals as on behalf of private individuals, of the Abbreviation S and Sigle S are used in a standard way. Here is a nonexhaustive list:

Current abbreviations

(used in France)

Signs

Very many contemporary French genealogists write family names in capitals and, even in a written text, state them before the first names. However, these two uses are far from being divided by the Anglo-Saxon genealogists.

So accents were introduced into the modern C-W communication of the first names and names, they are often indicated, even if they were non-existent in the denominations of time.

Abbreviations of first names

Dates in the parochial registers and of civil statue

Many genealogists disadvise the use of abbreviations formally, would be this only for reasons of good indexing and good referencing.

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