Frantisek Teply – Birth Register

Bohemian parish register entries in the 18th and 19th centuries were rich with family information. For example, a birth citation usually included:

  • Birth and baptism dates and places
  • Paternal names of father, his father, and mother’s maiden name
  • Maternal names of father, his father, and mother’s maiden name
  • Villages and house numbers where everyone lived
  • Occupations of males
  • Witnesses, their villages and house numbers, and their occupations
  • Midwife and her village, sometimes house numbers
  • Officiant

The Habsburg rulers of the Austro-Hungarian empire required lots of information that could be used for taxation, military conscription, religious and feudal information. It’s a dream for modern genealogists, better than parish records of Britian and US.

Sources

  • Frantisek Teply birth register – Zamrsk Archives, Czech Republic – s. R1-1 – p. XXXVII – i. 38 – r. 1