I am not sure about the answers to you house numbering questions but I would like to add a couple of comments. First, a great many of these so-called "villages" were simply a cluster of houses. One "village" I came upon had only 4 houses in it. In the house that my father was born in, a second story has now been added; the original house number was 41 with the second story becoming 42. Many of these small "villages" are now simply part and parcel of urban areas with no distinctiveness other than a sign. Secondly, I do know that the priest's records called Status Amimarum or Stanja Dusa were organized by village, then house number, then family name. It was, I believe, the priests way of viewing a family history without having the burdensome job of thumbing through the heavy original books which were organized by topic (birth, death and marriage), then chronologically. The Status Amimarum was a short cut. If you knew a date, you could then easily look up the original record, as needed. Many of the original records have the house number recorded in the entries. I assume this was to facilitate the later summarization in the Status Amimarum ledger. By the way when you find such a page on your family, it is a treasurer chest because ALL the family data for members living at that address are recorded here back to the early 1800s and the record is usually all on one page. FURTHER, this record is pure gold because it is also a cross-index to the men and women who married the children living at this address. So, by going to the page containing the village and address number of the spouse, you get the same entire information on the spouse's family. No, let me correct myself- -it is not gold- - rather it is a DIAMOND MINE for researchers. The drawback- - -you have to get it in person or have someone do it for you. Dick Puz