Does pagan come from village?

The Latin word pagus means village.

The Latin word paganus means pagan.

Is this just a coincidence? Or are these words in etymological connection?

Creative and poetic parish priest - gems in a death register

One of our dear fellow genealogists, Miklós Békefi drew our attention to these special death register pages:

(Felsőszölnök, Hungary  1789)

Paleography tips - Nr. 1: How do I begin?

You are so happy to find an old document really containing the name of our ancestor! You can decipher that name. But how should the amateur researcher then start out to read the whole document?

Happy Holidays!

(Source: http://www.stillenacht.at)

We wish you Happy Holidays with this German

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Have you found some Hungarian, German or Latin historical text or manuscript that you can't read? Let us make its abstract! You can learn

Gemini

Usually, in Hungarian birth registers written in Latin twins are calles gemini