Help with reading and translating My Ancestor Maren Pedersdatter's Christening Record
Will someone who knows Danish words help look at this record and tell me what you can understand from it?
Her name is on the right hand page, very bottom entry. https://www.danishfamilysearch.com/churchbook/sogn53/churchlisting130291/opslag13906314
This is the link to the page where her record is found. Another family history expert found it but could not read the names of her parents.
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Or if anyone has tips about how you learned to read old danish cursive, those are welcome too!
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The parents in the birth record are Peder Sørensen(?) and Anne Mortensdatter (possibly Martensdatter).
Since almost all of the dates in the left column are Sundays, that is probably the christening date. So the church christening date for Maren is 3 November 1771.
There are 2 dates in the right hand column (right under the name "Maren"). I think the first date (27 October) is a home christening date. (See this article on "Home Christening" https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Scandinavia_Birth_and_Christening. The word "døbt-baptized/christened) immediately precedes that date so there really isn't anything else it could be since it precedes the 3 November christening date.
The other date in that right column is 1 Dec. The line above that date reads "Mod(er) intro(duceret)" which is the date the mother was introduced back into the church. See this article on what that means: https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Scandinavia_Introductions.
The rest of the record (in the middle column) contains the names of the christening witness/godparents-males on the right and females on the left.
As far as learning to read the handwriting, I recommend this site: https://swedishgenealogyguide.com/learning-center. I know it is for Swedish, but it works the same for Danish and Norwegian records.
The Swedish Genealogy Guide site (above) has this link to a sample Gothic alphabet list-this works for Danish and Norwegian as well: https://swedishgenealogyguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Swedish-Gothic-Alphabet-Samples.pdf.
For a Danish to English genealogy wordlist, this is the page in the Family Search Wiki is really useful: https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Danish_to_English_Genealogical_Word_List#I.
A really useful Danish to English 1861 dictionary can be found here: https://books.google.com/books?id=S4gCAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false.
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