Daily AncestorFreitag
Freitag is German for Friday; older records often spell it Freytag, with a y in place of the i.
Freitag is Friday. The spelling Freytag is common in older documents, because old German spelling often used y where modern German writes i. The old spelling is no longer valid today, but it is the same word.
Freytag and Freitag are also German surnames, so in a list of names decide whether you are reading a family name or a day.
As seen in a recordBaptism register of a German parish, 1830s
Freytag den 12ten Februar 1836 geboren
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