>From Edna Bentz' excellent book "If I can you can decipher Germanic Records" English January - German - Januar - old form - Janner, Hartung, Eismonat February - Februar old - Feber, Hornung, Regenmonat (mostly I have seen Hornung when not Februar) March - Marz old form - Lenzing, Lenzmond, Windmonat (have never seen other than Marz) April - April old form - Ostermonat, Ostermond,Wandelmonat (again see only April) May - Mai - Weidemonat,Wonnemond,Blutemonat (again only Mai) June - Juni old form - Brachet, Brachmonat,Wiesemonat (often see Brachmonat) July - Juli old form - Heuert - Heumonat ( often see Heumonat) August - August old form - Ernting, Erntemonat, Hitzmonat, Augstmonat (have seen Hitzmonat) September - September - Herbstmonat, Fruchmonat,Scheiding, 7ber, 7bris) often either 7bris or Hertstmonat October - October - Weinmonat,Gilbhard, 8ber, 8bris (often Weinmonat or 8bris) November - November - old form - Reifmonat, Nebelmonat,9ber,9bris (have seen only 9 bris or November) December - Dezember old form - Julmonat, Christmonat, 10ber,10bris - (see mostly 10bris or Christmonat) There is also Wintermonat - which I have seen for either November(usually) or December. It all depends on the person putting in the information. For the last four months of the year I use the numbers 7, 8,9,10 as the last four months of the year so when 8bris shows up I know it is October. Hope this helps you. JOe Wolfe see n Sat, 22 Jan 2000 22:12:17 +0100 "Rens Scheijven" <rensmoniek@freeler.nl> writes: > I am searching for the ancestors of my wife Monique Koch. Her family > is from > Tamins in Graubuenden. Her family came to Maastricht in the > Netherlands in > 1815. About 1700 in the churchrecords i see names of the months like > Hornig > (I think this is another name for february) and Brachmount (?). > Who can give me the names of the months which were in use in that > period in > Graubuenden, their translation to our 'modern' monthnames and what > the > meaning of these names is? > Rens from the Netherlands. > > > ==== SWITZERLAND Mailing List ==== > Resource Site > http://www.rootsweb.com/~chewgw >