St. Liborius Catholic Church Parish Registers St. Libory, Illinois Copyright 2011, Gloria Dettleff, translator, compiler. SCCGS Home | Join SCCGS | About SCCGS

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About the Parish and Using the Database

• Verify information provided here with the original record. Read these instructions to access free online images on the Family Search website, and to access microfilm in person - a project funded by SCCGS.
• The church registers were written in Latin with a few entries in German before translation into English.
See Translation Aids link above.
• Spelling of last names may vary greatly in 19th century records like these. For example, the Terveer surname appears as Van De Fere, Terfere, and Terver. Remember too that when pronounced, many German letters sound similar and could be used interchangeably, D and T; B and P; F and V, and W and V, for example.
• Children might be baptized with 2 or 3 forenames, but would be known by the "rufname" or the "call name" which could be the first, second, or third forename. The "rufname" is sometimes underlined in the original church registers but is not duplicated in the online database.
• Some families reused names of deceased children.
• All names abbreviated in the original register were spelled out in the database and should be verified with other records.
• Other information added by the compiler appears in square brackets- [ ]
• Most early records appear chronologically on unnumbered pages although a few burial records are out of sequence.
• Infant deaths in burial records might be interpreted two ways, as Infant John, or as Infant of John. Baptismal records might clarify the entry.
• Occasionally marriage records were recorded amongst the baptisms, for example. Such cases appear in the appropriate marriage database on this website.

Sample Citation to a Specific Online Database Entry

• Latin and French language aids are available online in the Research Helps section of the FamilySearch website. There, click Search by Subject > then letter L, > scroll down to Languages].
• Given names translated from French and Latin into English are located on the American-French Genealogical Society website
• Shea, Jonathan D. and William F. Hoffman. Following the Paper Trail: A Multilingual Translation Guide. Teanech, New Jersey: Avotaynu, Inc., 1994.