7 - 2015 - Genealogy Tip of the Day

The year of birth for a relative could not be read in her baptismal entry. The last digit could easily have been an 8 or a 9. In reviewing additional church records, there was an entry for her confirmation in her early teens and that entry also gave her date of birth which was much easier to read. Fortunately the day and the month were a match with the baptismal entry also.