Doug, The books were bound previously to recording anything on them.
Usually the person responsible for the church numbered all pages and writes a brief comment about who he is, the church he belongs, the type of event they are going to register and the date they are starting to record the event. This is usually placed at front of the book, on the fly leaf, but I have seen on the back as well. Several books after being rebound in a later period are miss this type of information, but some still have the original information and the page is placed as a title page. The bookbinder also usually writes a notation that the book was rebound, he signs and dated. Isabella Baltar myportuguesegen.blogspot.com On Thursday, April 24, 2014 1:19:51 AM UTC-4, Doug da Rocha Holmes 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.
