I found the following in the West Sand Lake Lutheran Church Records and am not sure of their meaning Dies Natales          and     Dies Lustriei I think they mean  born and baptized as that is the kind of record that the words are in.s  the head columns of dates. Bob Coomber Rochester, NY  USA

"Dies Natales" = "day of birth" "Dies Lustriei" = "the eighth (or ninth) day after a child's birth, on which it was purified by a sacrifice and received a name" Art -----Original Message----- From: RFCoo@aol.com [mailto:RFCoo@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 7:26 AM To: NYRENSSE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [Rensselaer] word meaning dies natales I found the following in the West Sand Lake Lutheran Church Records and am not sure of their meaning Dies Natales          and     Dies Lustriei I think they mean  born and baptized as that is the kind of record that the words are in.s  the head columns of dates. Bob Coomber Rochester, NY  USA ==== NYRENSSE Mailing List ==== Archives: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl Rensselaer County Genweb page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyrensse/ GenConnect Board: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/NY/Rensselaer 1880 Fed Census: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com To unsubscribe http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/NY/rensselaer.html