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Jeana P
Jeana P ✭
August 24, 2023 edited September 30, 2024 in Get Involved/Indexing

I really want to be able to help on these, but I am not sure of what the sections are...I tried to use Google Translate, but no help, not sure what language.

It looks like there are 2 sets of parents...in the help images there are none to help with these.

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  • Jeana P
    Jeana P ✭
    August 24, 2023 edited August 24, 2023 Answer ✓

    I think I finally answered my own question...I have created a new picture in case anyone else needs it...please correct me if I am wrong.

    also "fili us" is a boy and "fili a" is a girl (the a/us is written in)

    I think the language is Latin...hope this helps someone

    zimbabwe.jpg


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  • Áine Ní Donnghaile
    Áine Ní Donnghaile ✭✭✭✭✭
    August 24, 2023 edited August 24, 2023 Answer ✓

    There are Latin baptismal word lists in the FamilySearch Wiki.

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  • Jeana P
    Jeana P ✭
    August 24, 2023
    https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/comment/524883#Comment_524883

    sorry, I am new here still...what is or where is the FS Wiki?

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  • Áine Ní Donnghaile
    Áine Ní Donnghaile ✭✭✭✭✭
    August 24, 2023 edited August 24, 2023
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    One of several word lists: https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/img_auth.php/3/35/Latin_Genealogical_Word_List.pdf

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    August 25, 2023

    Yup, as you concluded, it's Latin (well, mostly: "Surname" is English), and as Áine says, there's a good word list for that in FS's Wiki.

    The form looks like it was designed by someone who didn't expect much Latin knowledge from the people filling it out: other than the -a/-us endings, it doesn't require any knowledge of the grammar or vocabulary. (Well, OK, technically the names of the parents should be in the genitive case, but that requires translating "James Frederick" into "Jacobus Fridericus" and then turning it into "Jacobi Friderici". This obviously didn't happen, but it doesn't detract from the comprehensibility of the document.)

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  • Maile L
    Maile L ✭✭✭✭✭
    August 25, 2023

    In your top image, a me [the priest who did the baptism], patrinus and matrina [the godparents].

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