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Title: Latin names
Post by: janetmills on Friday 10 June 11 13:44 BST (UK)
Have just found on Ancestry a Baptism Cert.  It is in Latin (which I have no knowledge of!!).  The parents names are Elizabethae (which I assume is Elizabeth) and the father is JACOBI - does this tanslate to JAMES.

Thanks
Title: Re: LATIN NAMES
Post by: osprey on Friday 10 June 11 13:46 BST (UK)
it's the genitive, of James.

 ;)
Title: Re: LATIN NAMES
Post by: osprey on Friday 10 June 11 13:49 BST (UK)
this list may help
Title: Re: LATIN NAMES
Post by: janetmills on Friday 10 June 11 13:51 BST (UK)
Thanks for that.  All the other info matches so it looks like its mine.

Thanks