I didnt really know where to post this question.

Since I know there is always active people on this forum I figured I would try here first.

I have a family tree done in the mid 90's by an unknown researcher.

What I need help with is on some of the people they have added in abbreviations that I dont know the meaning of maybe someone here can help me.

A couple of examples.
Barbara (H-R-L)
Anne Marie (H-R-D)
Mary (H-R-G)
Joyce (H-R-R)
Marcia (A-E-J)
Tracy (A-J-J)
I realize these are all wives with no maiden name. However I dont see a pattern to what they mean. Also it seems like a very complicated way of just filling in the blank.

I dont have the original papers with me. But I thought that I had also seen these notations on people that had full names as well.

Is this a common set of abbreviations that I am just unaware of or will I never know what they mean unless I find the person who did the original work?

What you show in parentheses is not a standard genealogical type of abbreviation, but could represent the compiler's own abbreviation format.

Some written genealogical accounts begin a summary regarding a particular individual by giving a series of ancestors this way:

"John SoAndSo (RICHARD4, DANIEL3, JOHN2, JOHN1) . . ." with the names in parentheses being in order the first names of father, grandfather, etc. with their generation numbers as in the overall account.

Much older genealogical accounts might represent a similar series of ancestors like this:
(1.8.3.10.2.2)

-- with the numbers representing the child number of, first, the subject of the paragraph, next the child number of the child's parent, then the child number of the child's grandparent. The person reading the account would have to try to follow the numbers back in the right order in the account that they had a copy of.

It is possible that the writer of what you have represented preceding generations using the capitalized letters, in order going back in time.

Unfortunately Frostfreedet the people that have these abbreviations associated with them have no lineage. Most of them are spouses of the people directly related to the same family.

I take it these letters do not correspond at all to the initials of the husbands (whose full names are known)? That is, was this a way of keeping straight which Barbara or Elizabeth it was, if the wife's name was just in a list with other names?

You cracked the case for me. The last Letter was their Husbands first initial the original tree was 8 siblings coming to America.

The other letters correspond to which of these original sibling lines the person was in.

Haha seems so obvious when you look at it like that but my tree is well beyond these siblings so I never thought of that.
Thanks.

Glad McComberdescendant suggested the key. Sometimes reading writers' minds is really tough.

Yes it is hard to read peoples minds. Thanks for your effort to help as well.:)