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This example shows a person who you will list as NS (no surname). The bottom man, Damon
A man of color. The names you would enter for this example (the man on the bottom) is
Damon NS and in the remark section you will put a note saying that next to his name is
written in man of color. 
Double SS was sometimes written to look like fs. If you see that, it means SS and you write
the word with the SS in it. In this example you see these states 
This is another example of the SS. The top name is John J. Daviess, but Daviess looks like
Daviefs. When you enter this, you will type it in as Daviess. Now look at the very bottom
name, Mary Grissom. Sometimes they wrote out the ss and sometimes they used the letter that
looks like fs. The FS is just like a ditto, you will type in what was meant by it, and in
the FS case, it means SS.