The rules "*do"* change from time to time, Doug - *but, not in this case!* My only experience with the registers was in 1990, when I signed the register as a witness (testemunho), at my cousin's wedding, on a blistering hot day in July, in Sao Miguel. *Yes, the record was in a "bound ledger"*... As to your hypothesis, such a practice, wouldn't have been permitted, for the very reason that you, yourself, stated - ever try to sort 70 pages of legal documents? without messing up the order? In busy parishes, like the Matriz (Sao Sebastiao, Ponta Delgada), that idea would be classified as a* "non-starter."* The purpose of records being in bound registers is to preclude any - shall we say, *"monkey business" * with said documents. After all, they are "legal documents," even if they are kept by the church... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 >
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