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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] IGI birth/christening double entry
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 17:58:37 +0000
In-Reply-To: <018101c3d0ae$b94faf80$707c2750@diane>


In message <018101c3d0ae$b94faf80$>, Diane Wynne
<> writes
>Thanks Stella for your response.
>
>The strangest thing about this is that the baptist record doesn't give a
>baptism date only a birth date.
Baptists don't baptise infants, only register their existence. The
'child' must decide to have believer's baptism when old enough to know
what he/she is doing.
>

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Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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