Daily Ancestorut supra
Ut supra is Latin for as above; in registers it usually means the date or detail is the same as in the entry written above.
Ut supra means as above. Priests used it to avoid copying the same date, place or name again, so the meaning depends on the entry or line above it.
When you copy or index an entry marked ut supra, look back to find what it stands for, often the day or year. A photograph of one entry alone, without the one above, can lose that information.
As seen in a recordLatin baptism register, date line, 1780s
Die ut supra baptizata est Maria, filia Petri Lang
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