Livy, The Pommern Roman Catholic records from the 1800s that I am looking at are all in German, not Latin, so it may vary by geographic location within Prussia. Veronica > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:57:30 -0400 > From: Livy Revits <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] PRUSSIA-ROOTS Digest, Vol 4, Issue 154 > Naming Pattern in ... > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > > It does help enormously to learn as much of the language, > > > > NOT TRUE if Roman Catholic- all records written in Latin! - Livy > > > >