C.L. means Lutheran, though I'm not sure what the specific initial C indicates--my best guess is "confession". I got that from the parish priest making a note to himself about whether having all four witnesses to a birth in 1739 be Lutheran should really count or not. The other one I'm coming across is C.G. From the general context of records across the Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France records, I've seen mentions of Lutheran, Calvinist, Reformed, Anabaptist, and Confession of Augsburg (Lutheran). None of those would obviously be denoted by C.G. Any ideas? The specific records I'm seeing this in are from the German parish in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, France. Thanks, Rand