You can't necessarily assume they were infants; they could have been children or adults who have just come to the Christian faith, or any age child. Infant Baptism is pretty much done by families who are already church menbers but anyone joining the Protestant church for the first time would need to be Baptised first... Only the adults and older children would also be recorded as church members when they were Baptised and took on thier own profession of faith, where smaller children and infants the parents make those promises on their behalf. Children who are baptised as infants or young children then at the age of ten or so go through classes similar to Confirmation classes in Episcopal and Lutheran denominations, to become full members when they assume the pledges their parents made for them at Baptism.. I was not trying to start a fire storm.. Catherine<BR><BR><BR>**************<BR>Need a job? Find employment help in your area. (http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=employment_agencies& ncid=emlcntusyelp00000005)</HTML>