Explanations & Codes

EXPLANATIONS

Ancestral tables, genealogies and the Wenzel Databank have been produced with the genealogy program PRO-GEN. They consist of two parts:
At the left side the "Name Index" with an extra entry per character. Per surname or patronym the christian names of the various people are listed, together with birthyear and year of decease, as far as they are known. At the right side you see the items of people and their relations. These can be accessed by clicking the relevant individual. You can follow a chain by clicking the hyperlinks.

The various genealogic events are represented by symbols. You can find these symbols in the table below.

The places belonging to these events, are followed by a country- and sometimes by a regioncode. The explanations of these you can also find in the tables below. Some researchers resist the use of these codes in publications, but the ease of use more than counterbalances their argumentation. Try to find a town that occurs 40 times in the Atlas of Germany and former territories, without using this code.

In the reports, privacy-protection level 2 has been applied. This means that no events are shown for individuals that are born or have been baptised after 1905 and/or married after 1930, except when the died. However, in many cases I have these events.

The reports of the dutch families are in dutch, of german families in german and the Wenzel Databank is in english.

I hope that the reports are self-explaining for the rest, but when you have a question, don't hesitate to contact me. The same applies, when you want to have detailed information that is not part of the report.


SYMBOLS OF GENEALOGIC EVENTS

*birth
=christening
+death
±burial
¢cremation
&cohabitation, relation
Opublication of the banns
Xcivil marriage
#(church) wedding
Ødivorce

COUNTRY- AND REGIONCODES


COUNTRYCODE
AAustria
AUSAustralia
BBelgiumregions see table Belgium - provincecode
BRBrasil
CDNCanadaregions see table Canada - statecode
CHSwitzerlandregions see table Switzerland - cantoncode
CZCzechyregions see table Czechy - former german area's
DGermanyregions see table Germany - landcode
DKDenmark
ESTEstonia
ETEgypt
FFranceregions see table France - former german area's
FLLiechtenstein
GBUnited Kingdom
GCAGuatemala
GRGreece
HHungary
IItaly
INDIndia
IRLIreland
LLuxemburg
LARLibya
LTLietuva
LVLatvia
MMalta
MEXMexico
MSMauritius
NNorway
NANetherlands Antilles
NAMNamibia
NLNetherlandsregions see table Netherlands - provincecode
NZNew-Zealand
PLPolandregions see table Poland - former german area's
RAArgentina
RCHChile
RHHaiti
RIIndonesia
RLLebanon
RORomania
RUSRussiaregions see table Russia - former german area's
SSweden
SGPSingapore
SKSlovakia
SMESurinam
THAThailand
USAUnited States of Americaregions see table U.S.A. - statecode
WAGGambia
YUYougoslavia
ZASouth-Africa
BELGIUM - PROVINCECODE
B-ANAntwerpen (Antwerpen)
B-BRBrabant (Brussel)
B-HNHainaut (Mons)
B-LGLiège (Liège)
B-LILimburg (Hasselt)
B-LULuxemburg (Arlon)
B-NMNamur (Namur)
B-OVOost-Vlaanderen (Gent)
B-WVWest-Vlaanderen (Brugge)
B-RPRLuik/Eupen-MalmedyGermany before 1918
CANADA - STATECODE
CDN-NSNova Scotia
GERMANY - LANDCODE
D-BBBrandenburg
D-BLBerlin
D-BWBaden-Württemberg
D-BYBayern
D-HBBremen
D-HHHamburg
D-HSHessen
D-MVMecklenburg-Vorpommern
D-NSNiedersachsen
D-NWNordrhein-Westfalen
D-RPRheinland-Pfalz
D-SASachsen-Anhalt
D-SHSchleswig-Holstein
D-SLSaarland
D-SNSachsen
D-THThüringen
FRANCE - FORMER GERMAN AREA'S
F-ELOElsaß-LothringenGermany before 1918
NETHERLANDS - PROVINCECODE
NL-DRDrente
NL-FLFlevoland
NL-FRFriesland
NL-GEGelderland
NL-GRGroningen
NL-LILimburg
NL-NBNoord-Brabant
NL-NHNoord-Holland
NL-OVOverijssel
NL-UTUtrecht
NL-ZEZeeland
NL-ZHZuid-Holland
N.B. When coding my family history, I left countrycode NL- out!
POLAND - FORMER GERMAN AREA'S
PL-BRABrandenburgGermany before 1938
PL-DZGDanzigGermany 1920-1938
PL-NSLNiederschlesienGermany before 1938
PL-OPROstpreußenGermany before 1938
PL-OSLOberschlesienGermany before 1938
PL-POMPommernGermany before 1938
PL-POSPosenGermany before 1918
PL-WPRWestpreußenGermany before 1918
RUSSIA - FORMER GERMAN AREA'S
RUS-OPROstpreußenGermany before 1938
CZECHY - FORMER GERMAN AREA'S
CZ-BUMBöhmen und MährenGermany before 1945
CZ-SUDSudetenlandGermany before 1945
U.S.A. - STATECODE
USA-AZArizona
USA-CACalifornia
USA-COColorado
USA-DCDistrict of Columbia
USA-IAIowa
USA-ILIllinois
USA-INIndiana
USA-MAMassachusetts
USA-MDMaryland
USA-MIMichigan
USA-MNMinnesota
USA-MTMontana
USA-NENebraska
USA-NYNew York
USA-OHOhio
USA-PAPennsylvania
USA-TXTexas
USA-UTUtah
USA-WAWashington
USA-WIWisconsin
USA-WVWest Virginia
SWITZERLAND - CANTONCODE
CH-GEGenève
CH-GRGraubünden
CH-TITicino - (Tessin)


SOURCES

*ANWB Wereldatlas; ANWB Media, 1997.
*Documentation Forscherkontakte.
*Programdocumentation PRO-GEN.


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Versie/Version d.d.: 24-07-2006