Doug, I've noticed that on some older books you see the writing getting cutoff and continued on the next line, or the scrawling at an angle to fit. This shows the pages were already bound. Then there some where they are clear and neat, which
I assume to mean they were copied from the older records to a new book. Eric Edgar On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:19 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's something I've always wondered about and it would be very > interesting if anyone knew the answer. > > When a baptism, marriage or death record was newly created, say back in > 1806 (just a random year), was the page already bound in a volume? > > I think the answer is no. I imagine the priest had a stack of blank papers > cut to the proper size that he pulled out and wrote up the record. Once > enough of them were enough to make a volume, they had a priest bind the > pages into a book. > > It would mean that there might be 5 to 70 years, depending on the size of > the parish, that the pages stayed unbound. A little village like Sao Joao, > Pico, had one volume of baptisms starting in 1807 and ending in 1827. > That's 20 years of loose leafs until they got bound. > > Sometimes the priest's ink bottle got knocked over onto the paper and we > have a giant black spot still there today. > > Anyway, just curious about these things I pour over daily. > > Doug da Rocha Holmes > Sacramento, California > Pico & Terceira Genealogist > 916-550-1618 > www.dholmes.com > > -- > For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the > right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my > membership." > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Azores Genealogy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores. > -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
