Daily AncestorMontag
Montag is German for Monday; it appears in German records when the weekday of a birth, death or wedding is written out.
German records list the days as Sonntag, Montag, Dienstag, Mittwoch, Donnerstag, Freitag and Sonnabend or Samstag. Civil records often spell out both the weekday and the date, which lets you check a hard-to-read date against a calendar for that year.
If the weekday and the date disagree, one of them was miscopied, so look at the original page or a second record of the same event.
As seen in a recordDeath register of a German parish, 1840s
Montag den 12ten Januar 1846 Abends 6 Uhr gestorben
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