I don't know about 1806, but, in 1990, I signed the "register" as a witness (testemunho) to my cousin's marriage - yes, it was bound...
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.
