DAVID N MOTHKOVICH wrote: > > Oops - > almost forgot to help you on the second date you mentioned. > Sometimes if the birth was followed shortly by a death the second date > was listed, often a cross was drawn next to the date. > And some parishes put the death of the person in next to their baptismal > record if it was known when that person died years later. > Normally, I found the deaths and marriages recorded in a different > record. > Dave In Croatia (after 1945) churches were allowed to keep only baptismal records and Status Animarun (i.e. Stanju Dusa (Status of Souls) - the so-called "Knjiga Dusa" - "A Book of Souls". This is a census-like document listing family memebers; i.e. a genealogical record of any one generation and lists the man and woman upon marriage and each child as born ; commented if emigrated or had died. Elsewhere Once reviewed the family records of a Czech military family whose male members had served in the Austrian Army for a period of over 100 years. This family had lived in the same building in Praha from the early 1800s on. A small cross was listed to left of each surname's date of birth in records if deceased.