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The paper, involving a textlinguistic analysis, attempts to identify specific features of the Polish administrative language in the entries of the parish register from Busko-Zdrój in the 19th century.
Piotr A. Owsiński
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Catholic Parish Registers in Kazan between the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
The article examines parish registers of the Kazan Catholic parish of pre-revolutionary period. Kazan was the centre of the Catholic Church for the whole territory of the Middle Volga region, the Urals and the Kama region.
Artur Górak
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Marta Rzepecka: Archiwum kapituły i parafii Opatów
The aim of the following article is to present and analyse the collection of the Chapter and Parish Archive in Opatów. The Opatów chapter, existing for over eight centuries, is one of the oldest Polish collegiate chapters.
Marta Rzepecka
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The impact of the Clandestine Marriages Act: three case-studies in conformity [PDF]
This article examines the extent of compliance with the Clandestine Marriages Act 1753 through three parish studies. It demonstrates that the vast majority of the sample cohort of parents whose children were baptized in church, and indeed of couples ...
Edwards +4 more
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The article examines one of the main tendencies characteristic of modern historicodemographic research and related to the study of social processes on the basis of historical sources on population.
Elena Aleksandrovna Bryukhanova +3 more
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Parish registers are among the most important sources of Lithuanian historical anthroponymy. A chronologically unique baptismal register of Joniškis dating to 1599–1621, which is currently the oldest known Lithuanian parish register in Lithuania, stands ...
Alma Ragauskaitė
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'To bring the work to greater perfection': systematising governance in the Church of Scotland, 1696–1800 [PDF]
Following the confirmation of Presbyterian government in the Church of Scotland in 1690, a number of attempts were made to codify the governance practices that were to be followed in the various ruling bodies of the church.
Alistair Mutch +4 more
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Godparents and Marriage Witnesses in Istria from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century
On the basis of baptismal parish registers of Bale, Labin, Rovinj, Savičenta and Umag, this article addresses the topic of godparenthood in Istria from the fi fteenth to the seventeenth century.
Danijela Doblanović +1 more
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Loose, idle and disorderly: vagrant removal in late eighteenth-century Middlesex [PDF]
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Social History on 2 October 2014, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2014.975943Peer ...
Crymble, Adam +2 more
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The article treats baptismal, matrimonial and death parish registers in 17th–20th centuries, also lists of confirmees and lists of converts to Roman Catholic Church or Orthodox Church, lists of parishes and parishes’ residents of territories in Lithuania,
Saulius Žilys
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