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Subject: Re: [HUNGARY-L] Alsoszolnok, Vas-Church records
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 07:19:21 EDT

In a message dated 9/19/2003 10:50:27 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
writes:

<< Which once again, poses the question, where did the people get married
and baptized in the town?>>

Hi Joyce and All

I have no facts about "that town" in particular, but I do know about my towns
and situations, and people living where there was not a church were married
at home, the town public meeting house, or tavern etc. Even if there was a
church, it does not mean that ceremonies were performed in it. Baptisms I would
suspect were simply done at home. The existence of church records does not
automatically equal the existence of a church building. In the case of
Evangelical in particular, it is normal to find records beginning circa 1720, (kept by
schoolteachers, sometimes by pastors) but the communities did not have the
money (or the toleration of Roman Catholic landlords) to build actual edifices
till the late 1780/90s. I have other examples of records from the mid 1750s in
communities where there never was a church building ever. More examples are
from communities in former Hungary (now Croatia) where records (both RC and
Evangelische) began in 1850s, but there were no churches until the 1920s.

Regards
Linda

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