An ancestor with a first name Alexandri - should I leave that as is, or change it to Alexander?

Kathy Funk

An ancestor with a first name Alexandri - should I leave that as is, or change it to Alexander?

This was the mid to late 1500's in Wuerttemberg, Germany.

 

Thank you.

 

Kathy

Brett .

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Kathy

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I am "Tagging" this (General) 'Question' of yours in this "Community.FamilySearch" Forum, to two (x2) specific 'Groups' in the Forum being:

(1) "Germany Genealogy Research"; and,

(2) "FamilySearch - Deutschsprachig" ... [ 'German' speaking ]

in the hope that, the members of those groups may be able to answer/assist you.

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Brett

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Fritz Juengling

Was 'Alexandri' used in the genitive case? If so, change it to Alexander.

beatrix bartelt

I would adopt the name as it appears in the documents

Fritz Juengling

I suspect that this is a father's name--but not having seen the document or transcription thereof, cannot tell for sure-- and the sentence probably reads (translated) "X son of Alexandri." This would be genitive case form; the nominative, or base form, being 'Alexander.' In documents other than this one, the form 'Alexander' will appear. There is no doubt of that.

Also, in life, this person would have been called 'Alexander', never 'Alexandri.'