> Ewald, thanks for sending this it is very helpful. Could you list the rest of the months. I write all of this stuff in a book which helps me so very much when I am "trying" to read records. > Walk in peace, > Linn >> Used in civil records to say months: >> 7bre = Sept. >> 8bre = Oct. >> 9bre = Nov. >> 10bre or Xbre = Dec >> Ewald Hi Linn, If you¹re really interested in deciphering and translating Germanic/French records (or other languages, for that matter), you can find a slew of websites with genealogical vocabulary lists which you can then printout for your use anytime. One starting place for that would be the LDS familysearch.org vocabulary lists. <https://www.familysearch.org/node/894> will help you find the German lists. Almost any book on Germanic [or French] Genealogy will have some German [or French] gen vocabulary in it; but, for German, a fantastic, IMO, resource book is Ernest Thode¹s German-English Genealogy Dictionary [ISBN 0-8063-1342-0] with 286 pages of Ger-->Eng A-Z definitions, plus 35 additional helps such as numbers, months/days, symbols, suffixes, prefixes, etc. Since Alsatian is a Germanic dialect, their early records are in this same early German Schrift/handwriting. IF you¹re interested in learning how to do the deciphering yourself, I highly recommend Edna M.Bentz¹ <If I can, You Can ---- Decipher Germanic Records> [ISBN 0-9615420-0-4]. You CAN teach yourself with the help of this book! Good luck Cari Thomas