Old records

I would like to present some interesting examples of birth and marriage record from the time of I Republic of Poland before 1772. Majority of people interested in genealogy are familiar with records produced by Polish church during Austrian Rules of Galicia. Austrians imposed on Polish church their own way of writing metrical records which now proves to be very good for genealogists. Before 1772 it was different. As you see on the photos a record consisted of a few sentences and it was not in the form of the table. In case of baptism (1st photo) there was no date of birth – only date of baptism. First there was the name of the priest who baptized the child. In case of marriage records also there was no age of bride/groom. There were only the names of father of bride/groom and names of witnesses. Below you can see examples of birth/marriage record from 1759.

Unfortunately during WW2 Russians robbed almost all metrical books from 17th and 18th century from Przemysl Diocesan Archive. Till now nobody knows where they are.