Re: Help with death certificate abbreviations

On Apr 24, 1:16=A0pm, 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)

John Illenberger