Free Women of Color from St. Croix 1831-1832. Is there anyone who can help me with the following translation of Danish words listed? I have a partial list of Free Women of Color from St. Croix 1831-1832. The records were obtained at National Archives and Records Admisnistration (NARA) II in College Park, MD. and are from Record Group (RG) 55. The handwriting is very difficult to read and some of the letters are not in the English alphabet,so here goes; 'Frihed legitimeres ved medfi'lgemde Document?" "Fosestec" ? "Opholpotep" ? "Omfrifost" ? "Frigiven" "Funno'bt"? "Ogtviet" "Ugivt" "Frommed og harnfra" ? (This column lists countries, including Africa) "Hvarlongo par Lamdett" ? The words name, "Navn" age, "Alper" and color "farvd" I was able to figure out from what was written in the column. If anyone researching St.Croix, is interested in the pages I copied, I'll be gld to send them to you directly. Andrea

The first line is "has the freedom been legitimized with an official document."

A good book with a section on this subject is "Slave Society in the Danish West Indies" by Neville A T Hall

ANDREADRAMSEY@cs.com> skrev i en meddelelse news:a5.3b7d21d5.2c1fa86a@cs.com... > Free Women of Color from St. Croix 1831-1832. > Is there anyone who can help me with the following translation of Danish 'Frihed legitimeres ved medfi'lgemde Document?" The freedom is legitimized by the following/attached document > "Fosestec" ? No meaning > "Opholpotep" ? No meaning > "Omfrifost" ? No meaning > "Frigiven" Given free > "Funno'bt"? No meaning > "Ogtviet" No meaning > "Ugivt" No meaning > "Frommed og harnfra" ? (This column lists countries, including Africa) "Fremmed og hvorfra " Foreigner from > "Hvarlongo par Lamdett" ? No meaning If you need other translations try the newsgroup dk.videnskab.historie.generalogi where i think you can get more help. Michael B. Hardersdorf