I meant that I could not find one reference to "an morbo nigro" on google. I am familiar with the Black Death, if that is what "an morbo nigro" means. Thanks. Paul On Dé hAoine, 1 Iúil, 2011, at 05:20, Aida Kraus wrote: > The Black Death is bubonic plague: > http://www.themiddleages.net/plague.html > Aida > > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 5:15 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> What would an morbo nigro mean in a 1792 death record? >> >> The Black Death? >> >> I cannot find even one reference to it on google. >> >> Thanks. >> >> Paul >> -- >> Resources for Alsace-Lorraine list members: >> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/Alsace-Lorraine-L.htm >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > -- > Resources for Alsace-Lorraine list members: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/Alsace-Lorraine-L.htm > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

That's because you're looking in the wrong place on google. Go to translate.google.com and type it in and select Latin to English, or whatever language you want to read it in. It is indeed the Black Death. Black disease, literally. Bubonic Plague to give it's medical terminology. Although, not all of those records of Black Death were in actuality Bubonic plague. It has been determined that there were other afflictions rolled in with Bubonic plague, but that Bubonic plague did indeed re-occur over a long period of time. That's what happens when you haven't got a microscope handy to determine the actual viral or bacterial cause of death, and a good supply of antibiotics handy to stop a disease in it's tracks. What were those Middle Ages people thinking? ;') I get this from articles I've read on how some graves have been dug up over the years to test these theories. Amazing, that this kind of information can be determined centuries afterward. Scary to find Bubonic plague, and others, still living in the soil of graves centuries later. I doubt they found anything in the Bonfire (aka bonefire) graves, if they even looked there. Brian On Fri, July 1, 2011 7:42 am, [email protected] wrote: > I meant that I could not find one reference to "an morbo nigro" on google. > > I am familiar with the Black Death, if that is what "an morbo nigro" > means. > > Thanks. > > Paul