Daily Ancestorpostridie
Postridie is Latin for on the following day, the day after; registers use it to give a burial or baptism date one day after the event named before it.
Postridie means on the next day, and pairs with pridie, on the day before. A priest wrote it to save writing a full date, so the date depends on the day just named in the entry.
A common pattern is natus die 3, baptizatus postridie: born on the 3rd, baptized on the 4th. If you index the record, always turn postridie into the real date so the link to the previous date is not lost.
As seen in a recordLatin baptism register, date line, 1790s
Natus die 14 Januarii, baptizatus postridie
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