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In genealogy, is there a standard way to indicate information is a probability but not a certainty?

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
genealogy
1MillionJoneses asked:


I am referring to info in family trees. Say I have a relative who’s found in the Montgomery County, Ohio census records for every available census he was alive. Each record say he was born in “Ohio” but not Montgomery County, Ohio. I am pretty sure that is where he was born…his family had been there many years before….and he is buried there. But, I do not have proof that this is where he was born or died. So, is there some sort of symbol or something I could put in front of the info (like a tilde or an asterisk) to indicate the info is a probability but not a certainty?

Mildred