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i am looking for information onlouisa frederici iam wondering if she was related to my great grandfather william fredricey in kansas. my grandfather was charles o. fredricey december16,1885.

It looks like Latin endings on familiar nonLatin names ... could be plural but if its in a genealogy it's more likely to be a genitive ending. Which just indicates possession. For instance, imagine three cousins all called Louise. In the family it'd be convenient to say: I saw Elizabeth's Louise in town, and she says Mary's Louise is learning Latin! In which case, stick on some Latin endings and you get Elizabethae Louisa, Mariae Louisa and so on. Same with Frederick. Frederick's Mark and Robert's Mark would be Frederici Marcus and Roberti Marcus.

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Try that, and see if it fits your data. It doesn't of course mean that you had ancestors who actually answered to the names of Elizabetha and Fredericus - but the person who wrote them down was either being very precise and accurate, or a bit of a show-off.

I can't help too much but I can tell you what I've learned from my own geneology records (also German). I'm not sure what year yours are from or what language they were written in, but I can tell you spelling wasn't as standardized as it is today. I can't say I've ever seen Elisabethae or Frederici in my family records though I have seen Elisabetha and Frederick. Also, some records, like church records, were written in Latin and Latin variations were used. A lot of early geneology is researched from church records since churches were one of the few places that kept pretty good tabs on people. For example my great-grandmother's name is Lenore but some records show Leonora and even Eleanora.