Family Historian User Group

can someone please tell me the difference between baptism and christening. Does it matter which I use?I want to print out a tree and often I don't have a birth date but I do have the bapt (or christening) date.
Many thanks![smile]

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As far as your tree is concerned they can be treated as the same. Christening is the giving of a name and being admitted to the Christian Church. It is often done by baptism, which is the religious rite of immersing or sprinkling with water.

This has been discussed on the Family Historian mailing list in the past so these might help:

http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/fa ... 1089661492

http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/fa ... 1061982413

http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/fa ... 1088799380