Transcribing foreign language records can be difficult. Comparing a record to others in the same series to see which text is repeated is one helpful approach. Using words common to a record is another way to work out how a writer usually wrote certain letters or words. Determining place names mentioned in records is sometimes difficult.
But it pays to think about the logistics, especially with christening records.
If a child is born on one date and baptised a day or two after and the location of a sponsor is difficult to read, remember how news would have travelled at the time. A sponsor from a different town is not traveling far for a baptism in 1756 and if the baptism is a day or two after the birth, that location listed for the sponsor (which may be difficult to read) has to be relatively close to the location of the baptism.
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