What are these symbols?
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Auburn
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Week Day Symbols
Today, there are eight names for the days of the week in standard German, Sonntag, Montag, Dienstag, Mittwoch, Donnerstag, Freitag, and Samstag or Sonnabend. Dialects have other names, but we will not concern ourselves with those names. However, in old documents, scribes often used symbols to...
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Brilliant find!Week Day Symbols
Today, there are eight names for the days of the week in standard German, Sonntag, Montag, Dienstag, Mittwoch, Donnerstag, Freitag, and Samstag or Sonnabend. Dialects have other names, but we will not concern ourselves with those names. However, in old documents, scribes often used symbols to...www.familysearch.org
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LinnetLegs
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Thank you. Another genealogy mystery solved.Week Day Symbols
Today, there are eight names for the days of the week in standard German, Sonntag, Montag, Dienstag, Mittwoch, Donnerstag, Freitag, and Samstag or Sonnabend. Dialects have other names, but we will not concern ourselves with those names. However, in old documents, scribes often used symbols to...
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Auburn
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I have to own up - I can't take the credit for my "find"- it was my husband who found it!
Getting him to take an interest is pretty miraculous- although he is quite good at acting fascinated (years of practice listening to my squeals of excitement when I make a discovery)
Getting him to take an interest is pretty miraculous- although he is quite good at acting fascinated (years of practice listening to my squeals of excitement when I make a discovery)
burt
Where there's a will there's a way!
Well, this was new to me as well!
Thankyou to @LinnetLegs for raising the question, and to all of you that were determined to find the answer,
especially @Auburn's Hubbie!
Thankyou to @LinnetLegs for raising the question, and to all of you that were determined to find the answer,
especially @Auburn's Hubbie!
Archie's Mum
Always digging up clues
That’s the one I came across yesterday. It’s the easiest to read also. The vicar kindly added some humour to the Saturday Saturn.
Archie's Mum
Always digging up clues
The Mars symbol here is somewhat different to that on the image from @AnnB. Maybe they changed over time. It’s more like Saturn. Mars now is a circle with emerging arrow.
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Archie's Mum
Always digging up clues
Oops. Sunday Sun not Saturday Saturn. Did it before.
gillyflower
Always caring about others
How interesting. Didn't know - we learn something new every day