Yes Tony, Sponsors are godparents, and on the marriage certificate, they would be the witnesses. Ann >From: tony figueroa <tfiggytoo@yahoo.com> >Reply-To: CARIBBEAN-L@rootsweb.com >To: CARIBBEAN-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: sponsors..what are they? >Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 05:37:11 -0700 (PDT) > >Are names listed as sponsors on baptism certificate same thing as >godparents?.What about sponsors listed on marriage certificates? What are >tey?Tony Figueroa > >Researching FIGUEROA,WHORMS, DEPASS, ABSALOM, INNERARITY, MARKS(MARQUES), >RITCHIE from Jamaica, CARVALHO from Jamaica, Brooks > > >--------------------------------- >Do you Yahoo!? >The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. > > >==== CARIBBEAN Mailing List ==== >For information on individual islands, research aids, island bulletin >boards or history please visit the CaribbeanGenWeb project at >http://www.rootsweb.com/~caribgw/ > "Sharing the information." _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

thanks Ann,thats what I thought but had to be sure.Tony Ann Whiting <aqw8326@hotmail.com> wrote:Yes Tony, Sponsors are godparents, and on the marriage certificate, they would be the witnesses. Ann >From: tony figueroa >Reply-To: CARIBBEAN-L@rootsweb.com >To: CARIBBEAN-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: sponsors..what are they? >Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 05:37:11 -0700 (PDT) > >Are names listed as sponsors on baptism certificate same thing as >godparents?.What about sponsors listed on marriage certificates? What are >tey?Tony Figueroa > >Researching FIGUEROA,WHORMS, DEPASS, ABSALOM, INNERARITY, MARKS(MARQUES), >RITCHIE from Jamaica, CARVALHO from Jamaica, Brooks > > >--------------------------------- >Do you Yahoo!? >The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. > > >==== CARIBBEAN Mailing List ==== >For information on individual islands, research aids, island bulletin >boards or history please visit the CaribbeanGenWeb project at >http://www.rootsweb.com/~caribgw/ > "Sharing the information." _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ==== CARIBBEAN Mailing List ==== all messages posted to CARIBBEAN-L are archived at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ Before posting a query, see if the question has already been asked Researching FIGUEROA,WHORMS, DEPASS, ABSALOM, INNERARITY, MARKS(MARQUES), RITCHIE from Jamaica, CARVALHO from Jamaica, Brooks --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo.