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Member Since: March 2009 Posts: 134 Send Message	Catherine	Report	17 Aug 2009 14:57
Member Since: March 2009 Posts: 134 Send Message	Please could anyone tell me what the initials USD under name on a birth certificate means ...Under a certificate I have for Jane Davies 1892 born Burslem Staffordshire England. Catherine
Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 7,051 Send Message	PollyPoppet	Report	17 Aug 2009 15:19
Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 7,051 Send Message	hi think it stands for Urban Sanitary District
Member Since: March 2009 Posts: 134 Send Message	Catherine	Report	17 Aug 2009 17:42
Member Since: March 2009 Posts: 134 Send Message	Hi PollyPoppet, Thanks for the explanation , what a strange thing to put on birth certs. Kind regs Catherine
Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 7,051 Send Message	PollyPoppet	Report	17 Aug 2009 17:48
Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 7,051 Send Message	hi if you google it it gives you an explanation
Member Since: June 2005 Posts: 3,379 Send Message	George_of_Westbury	Report	17 Aug 2009 17:50
	or look at this link http://www.british-genealogy.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-24761.html George
	Researching: My avatar is that of my Dad and shipmates, taken onboard HMS Blanche in 1938, place unknown From left to right, my Dad,Sidney Mellor and Sidney Bateman.