Daily Ancestorinfrascriptus
Infrascriptus is Latin for written below or undersigned, used of the person who signs at the end of a record.
Infrascriptus means written below. The BYU list of common phrases gives infrascriptus and subscriptus as undersigned. The opposite is suprascriptus, written above.
In a certificate or register copy, ego infrascriptus means I, the undersigned, and the name comes in the signature at the end.
As seen in a recordLatin baptism certificate, Austria, 1800s
Ego infrascriptus parochus testor
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