Hi Lucy, Used in civil records to say months: 7bre = Sept. 8bre = Oct. 9bre = Nov. 10bre or Xbre = Dec Ewald +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2011/8/3 Lucy Battersby <[email protected]> > > Dear Etienne and Rita, > > > > Thank you for pointing me to the German biographical and the English > Wikipedia sources. I'll explore the latter first, then will move (with > trepidation) to the German. > > > Gloria, both of your suggestions were interesting, although each had a > strike against him (and you can guess what they were). > > > May I know from someone expert in handwriiting what the month would be for > the birth of Geoffroi Goepp in Heiligenstein (Bah Rhin, Heiligenstein, TD, > 1833-1842, 4 E 188/10), forgive me I don't have the pages, but it is with > the births of all those Goepps. The months looks to be "ybu. Below > another one (David Goepp) thy looks to be "gbre" so I this is what I see > when I look down the page: "avril, janvier, aout, yby?, use?, mars, mai, > idt? (idt?) gbre?, Aout,? mars, mars, Avril, and gbre?". Thank you in > advance to anyone who can give a coup d'oeil. > > > Best wishes, > > > Lucy > > -- > 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 >