I need help deciphering Danish confirmation dates. Is someone able to read Danish?

E Vollmer

E Vollmer

I have found a confirmation record and the parents' names are correct for the family I'm looking for. I just don't know what the the writing and dates are for in the other columns in the right. I figure one is for vaccinations and one must be about the confirmation. Please help me understand them and maybe it will not help me learn this for her siblings as I come to them. It is on this link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9Z6-XHW2?cc=2078555&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AQGD8-2BYS

Thanks so much, Elaine

Norm Baker

The column with the date in it is the date of their smallpox vaccination and who did it. The other column is the page and the entry number in the Jevnførelses Register.

The Jevnførelses Register is sometimes translated as "General Index" or "Comparing Index". It was meant to record all of the important events in a person's life in one place, (such as birth, christening, confirmation, marriage, move-in, move-out, and death dates) but it rarely was kept up. It almost always only has only one, or occasionally, two events recorded. It was probably a Herculean task to keep up the Register as it was mean to be done and consequently, it was rarely kept complete.

I am not able to locate the Jevnførelses Register for this parish and this time period. This link references the Jevnføresles Register for Vadum parish in 1847: https://www.sa.dk/ao-soegesider/en/billedviser?bsid=356096#356096,70419288. You can see the various columns. The first one is the entry number, followed by the name of the individual in the record. The other columns list the page where the birth, confirmation, marriage, etc record can be found in the corresponding parish book.

For instance, entry #1 of 1847 indicates that Lars Anders Thomsen's birth record can be found on page 23 and is entry #1 on that page. So when you find that page and entry number in the birth book, you find Lars Andreas Thomsen's birth: https://www.sa.dk/ao-soegesider/en/billedviser?bsid=171238#171238,28743171. However, all the rest of the columns were left blank.

It is worth looking for the Register, however, because you occasionally find more information. As an example, entry #9 on this page lists the birth of Jacob Jepsen's stillborn child on page 239-entry 1 and it lists the child's burial on page 281-entry 4.

E Vollmer

I've never heard of a Jevnførelses Register so this was very helpful in my research. Thanks for the transcription!