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Title: What does LDS mean please ?
Post by: pml518 on Tuesday 18 August 09 23:03 BST (UK)
Hello.
         I am looking at a marriage certificate from Elgin, Scotland for John Cormack married in October 1910, after his name it says L.D.S. I do not know what his occupation was but his father was a dentist, could this refer to a dental qualification if he followed in his fathers footsteps ?
         paul
Title: Re: What does LDS mean please ?
Post by: behindthefrogs on Tuesday 18 August 09 23:07 BST (UK)
Licentiate in Dental Surgery.  That certainly was the meaning at the start of the 19th 20th century.  Whoops! my dictionary isn't that old!!

David
Title: Re: What does LDS mean please ?
Post by: pml518 on Tuesday 18 August 09 23:09 BST (UK)
wow that was quick. Thanks
paul
Title: Re: What does LDS mean please ?
Post by: Jamjar on Wednesday 19 August 09 06:47 BST (UK)
And to think I expected it to be Latter Day Saints, when I clicked.  :-[

Jamjar
Title: Re: What does LDS mean please ?
Post by: geniecolgan on Wednesday 19 August 09 06:55 BST (UK)
Quote from: behindthefrogs on Tuesday 18 August 09 23:07 BST (UK)
Licentiate in Dental Surgery.  That certainly was the meaning at the start of the 19th century.

David

It was at the beginning of the 20th century too  ;D
Title: Re: What does LDS mean please ?
Post by: dobfarm on Wednesday 19 August 09 08:03 BST (UK)
Licentiate in Dental Suffering