The page in the first post is from microfilm. At my local FHC, they have a microfilm reader slaved to a PC. I copied all the pages that contained ancestors or relatives of mine, born or married in Levico Terme, Trento, Austria ( Italy today ) to a CD.
The columns from left to right are
1) No. della Casa I think this means number of children in the home? however, written in this column and the left margin is the death date, if the individual died in the parish.
2) Above columns 2 and 3 are the year. Below that is the month and day of birth. Next to that is the time of birth ( why they felt this was important back then, I do not know)
3) date of Baptism
4) the surname written LARGE and the given name and christian name under that. Below the names is someting written I have not yet figured out ( the reason for the topic )
5) Religion: catholic or protestant with a number. I guess they kept track of the number of catholic and the number of protestant births
6) Male or female , numbered also
7) legitimate or illegetimate, numbered also
Genitori For padre: the name of the father AND his parents.
for madre: the name of the mother and HER parents
VERY VERY HELPFUL
9) the ministers name
10) the godparents
11) condizione ( I don't know what is supposed to be written here)
Interesting to look at the dates of birth and baptism. Often, children were baptized the same day the were born or the very next day if born after a certain time. I guess this was because of the high infant mortality rate of the time. This was because of the belief that an unbaptised soul would go to Limbo.
I am very glad to have gone to the FHC and ordered the microfilm. I have several others to look at. If anyone has any questions about this just ask.
Descendant of Rotolo of Rizziconi, Cabriel/Gabriel of Belluno(BL), Froner,Ell,Ognibeni,Moschen of Levico Terme(TN), Libardi,Avancini of Barco di Levico(TN), Bernardi of Ponte nelle Alpi(BL), Metz of Bronzolo(BZ), Bonatti of Martello (BZ),Atz of Salorno(BZ