Zbornik Janković, Vol. V No. 5-6, 2021.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.47325/zj.5.1
Family reconstruction in the 18 th century – in the context of social history – methods, difficulties, outcomes – examples from Križevci and Požega parishes
Zdenko Balog
Abstract
Family reconstruction (by extracting data from all three standard registers) follows an individual family from marriage through the cycle of procreation, through one or more father’s marriages, until the family ceases to exist, and until the formation of a new family of the surviving offspring. By connecting the family of ancestors and descendants, we trace lineages, and the end result of tracing a lineage through several generations is called genealogy. By following families and lineages, as well as following surnames through generations of descendants, we collect important data for the reconstruction of community life. The nucleus of the community is the parish, which is the earliest to start collecting data on individuals. The preservation of parish books and their availability are a condition for family reconstruction. The relatively wellpreserved parish books of the Croatian-Slavonic area, and their complete availability are an excellent basis for studying data from the available material. The selected parishes, Požega and Križevci, are medium-sized parishes, with mostly preserved parish registers for the period in question. Although the premise of the family is the father and the wives, and descendants gathered around him, from every study of the family we encounter illegitimi. In our reconstruction we will sometimes break through these frameworks and give examples of a different way of looking at the family.
Keywords
reconstruction; family history; genealogy: Križevci: Požega
Hrčak ID:
281339
URI
Publication date:
17.8.2022.
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