On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:50:20 -0700 (PDT),
"johnillenberger@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <johnillenberger@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Apr 24, 1:16 pm, Charles Ellson <char...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On 24 Apr 2008 04:34:10 GMT, hermanHAAL...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Hermanw) wrote:
>>
>> >If these certificates were in English the abbreviation dis'd probably
>> >means disceased
>>
>> ITYM "deceased". Without the surrounding context "dis'd" could mean
>> lots of things such as e.g. [body] discovered, diseased, [treatment]
>> discontinued, etc.
>
>This death certificate is for George Theodore Albert Stiebeling who
>died in 1889 in New York Ciity as a small child. His father is NOT
>known, although it said he was from Germany. Under Father's Name is
>(dis'd) O.W. and under Mother's Name is Emma Stiebeling, (dis'd)
>
If the mother _was_ deceased then it might be that the registrar
couldn't spell but if she wasn't then we're still looking for another
interpretation.
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