tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627646916311356078.post1666541855233843052..comments2023-10-30T06:38:20.662-04:00Comments on Roots & Stuff: I have the data - now to add the information.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627646916311356078.post-2678629872080491762015-08-16T15:34:16.698-04:002015-08-16T15:34:16.698-04:00It is very lucky for me that it is Latin. I grew u...It is very lucky for me that it is Latin. I grew up in the Catholic church when the Mass was still in Latin so It is reasonably comfortable for me even though I have no real expertise in the language. The problem for me these days is that I've been looking at civil records. German language is difficult enough but old German Script is a real challenge. Mary Foxworthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10920635118761855399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627646916311356078.post-68787821971756218082015-08-16T15:13:09.270-04:002015-08-16T15:13:09.270-04:00It is written in Latin languageIt is written in Latin languageGosiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14604712540141917583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627646916311356078.post-49160824149683355132015-03-12T14:34:03.718-04:002015-03-12T14:34:03.718-04:00+Linda Stufflebean – thanks for the encouraging wo...+Linda Stufflebean – thanks for the encouraging words. I am in the FB Polish Genealogy group and everyone has been very helpful.<br /><br />Pattern recognition is the key to recognizing surnames in the early unformatted records and I find that to be quite fatiguing. I’ll just get accustomed to one priest’s pattern of entry and then someone new has started making entries - and of course he had his own style, not to mention handwriting.<br /><br />When I do find a record, I can often do the translation; if not I get help. But I can look at only so many pages of that before my brain rebels. It takes me many viewing sessions to get through a film<br /><br />But, I’m not giving up – I’m taking a rest. At this point I feel a greater urgency to share my findings than to search further back. Eventually, I’ll find them.<br />Mary Foxworthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10920635118761855399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627646916311356078.post-29045164020035952332015-03-11T18:53:32.345-04:002015-03-11T18:53:32.345-04:00My dad's family was from Slovakia. I think Pol...My dad's family was from Slovakia. I think Poland is similar in that the church records probably don't go all that far back, say before 1800. I found it worth the time to continue to delve into the more difficult records to decipher, knowing that there were not very many generations left to find. I found the same while hunting through my Danish/Swedish lines, although those records exist in an earlier time period. You might want to reconsider. There are Facebook groups that can help with reading the old writing and if you are able to visit the Family History Library in SLC, there are experts there who can read and translate them for you.Linda Stufflebeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10652044674485948749noreply@blogger.com