On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:09:25 +0800, "Peter Holmes"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>what the first few entries on the list relate
>to - specifically the abbreviation <Alt. > preceding 'birth', "burial",
>"christening" & "death"

Alt. stands for "alternate" or "alternative". I use them when I have
conflicting data. For example, a newspaper obit may say a person was
born in 1921, but the tombstone may say 1920. So one goes in the main
birth event, and the other goes in an Alt. Birth event.

-- 

Dennis M. Kowallek
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