I have a good number of pages of baptism records from St. Peter's Catholic Church in Oakland all before the restricted date of 1930. I got them from the Md. Archives microfilm this June. I would like to transcribe them and post them, but old Baptism records of Catholic churches were latinized by the priests. So the first names were morphed into a Latin name. They were also hand written. So I have 2 concerns. 1., Reading the handwriting accurately., 2., Should I try to put the first name back into english or (I think this is what I should do) just try to spell the name out as written by the priest and let you out on the list decide whether it could be a name you are interested in. On a limited basis I can probably send a scan of individual records anyone asks me about. Also the words between the names are latin and I have picked up on some of them but not all. It will take me quite a while to post them all, but this is a good message board and there is lots of good sharing! here. Hey, out on the list, do you agree I should try my best to type the names just as Latinized by the priests? Art --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now

Hey, out on the list, do you agree I should try my best to type the names just as Latinized by the priests? --------- Type the names as you see them Art. If they appear to be names someone is researching they can probably find help translating them to English. To bad we can't send scanned images to the Rootsweb lists, it sure would save a lot of typing time, but I understand the reason we can't and am thankful for everything Rootsweb provides to the world of genealogy.