Kathy, I can certainly understand what you are saying, but back in the "old country", it was very unusual for a child to be baptized on the day of birth, and even in the Germanna area of VA in the early days. In the absence of more data, when I find a baptism record in Germany, without a birth date, I always enter the birth date as "before the baptism date". Sarge At 9/5/2011 10:17 AM Monday, kshepard wrote: *********START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT********* >I was baptized on my day of birth due to being so sickly and my chance of survival was slim. Two of my older brothers had the same condition and both died within 1 and 3 days of birth. I would say that the fact that the mother did not attend may be an indicator that the mother and child has a rough time of it, and that their religous beliefs were that a person needed to be baptised to have entry to Heaven... > >Kathy >TN Germanna Reunion - Sept. 9-11 http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~george/easttennesseereunion2011.html >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GERMANNA_COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **********END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT*********** My Germanna Database at Rootsweb: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=germanna My Germanna Website at Rootsweb: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~george/index.html