Questions tagged [church-records]
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Monumental Inscriptions - Churchyard of St Mary & St Chad in Brewood, Staffordshire
Is anyone aware of an online-accessable index/list of the MI's for this churchyard?
I cannot find such on the CD of Staffordshire MI's published by BMSGH (Midland-Ancestors) nor within the ...
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Unreadable word in latin 18. century church death record
I'm unable to decrypt some word in a Latin church record of a death in 1769. It is available at Matricula Online (the second last entry on the page). Since the image is licensed CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0 I ...
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What name might "B." indicate in 16th or 17th century Germany?
I've run across the abbreviated name "B." in the oldest church books I am working with. I don't think I've seen it used after around the middle of the 17th century, but I've seen it in ...
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What is the meaning of this symbol in a German churchbook?
This is from a church book from the Thuringia region. The priests often marked deaths with a cross symbol, and in more recent years, also a reference to the entry for that death.
However, I notice ...
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Would a private adoption in Minnesota's Swedish community in 1880 been handled by the Lutheran Church?
My mother's mother, first name Anna, was born in Minnesota (probably Frontenac) in 1879, and privately adopted by Solomon Long and Anna Lindberg, who lived in Princeton, Minnesota. Anna wasn't listed ...
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Transcribing Weidelbach entry from 1735
I have another entry that's quite difficult to read, and for which I could use some help with transcription.
So far, I have:
Catharina Elisabetha. Joh. [?] Schwei-
tzers und Anna Elisabetha [?]in ...
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Transcribing baptism entry from Oberellenbach in 1697
So far, I have this:
den 17 Maj ist Elisabeth Schweitzern in [?] von
[Zielkes?] kind mit Hans jacob [?] getaufft
u. ihm d. nahme Martha Elisabeth von johanneß [?]
Tochter von Cunnefeld gegeben ...
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What church was before St. Nicholas Church, Solohead and Oola, Ireland?
I'm looking for which church my family would have used in "Solohead and Oola".
St. Nicholas (Solohead and Oola) Church was built in 1887. Did it replace another St. Nicholas Church? Or was there ...
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