<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>I have not yet found the ideal dictionary to help with translation of documents of genealogical value written in Latin.  Even the very expensive Oxford Latin Dictionary has many shortcomings when it comes to translating genealogical documents.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>You might try C. Russell Jensen's book "Parish Register Latin: An Introduction".  It is available for free in several formats online at <A href="http://www.archive.org/details/parishregisterla00crus">http://www.archive.org/details/parishregisterla00crus</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>You can read it online or download the B/W PDF.  I have heard that full text version is a copy of the book that was scanned and converted to text by optical character recognition (OCR).  The full text version is full of errors due to a poor job of OCR, so don't use the full text version.  I use the B/W PDF version myself, but there are other versions (Kindle and DjVu, among others).  The book is actually a textbook of Latin for genealogists, but it includes a great Latin-English dictionary for genealogists at the end of the book.  In all, the book is 427 pages long, so you may not want to print the whole thing out.  Instead, you might just want to print out the dictionary from pages 362-414.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Kind regards,</DIV> <DIV>Stephen J. Danko</DIV> <DIV><A href="http://www.stephendanko.com/">http://www.stephendanko.com/</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma> <HR SIZE=1> <B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Janey Joyce <jejoyce@sbcglobal.net><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> apgpubliclist@apgen.org<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Mon, October 25, 2010 11:25:31 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [APG Public List] Latin dictionaries<BR></FONT><BR>I am beginning to try to translate some Catholic Church records written in Latin <BR>and wonder if some of you have some advice for me. <BR><BR><BR>Can you recommend a dictionary that isn't priced in the hundreds of dollars <BR>range? Have you found a particularly helpful online Latin dictionary?<BR><BR>Some of these documents were written in the 1600s and come from Italian <BR>churches. Some were written in the late 1800s and come from American churches. <BR></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>