Posts in August 10, 2024

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, […]