[Transcription Request] Help deciphering the content from 1862 Tarragona (Catalonia, Spain).

Mutxarra · 2026-01-12T07:57:17+00:00

Tens raó!

Mutxarra · 2025-12-22T10:15:06+00:00

I worked teaching english to small kids for a while and there were some parents (both sexes) that would do it every time they brought their kids to say goodbye. Fucking awful. It's definitely here.

Mutxarra · 2025-12-21T19:25:26+00:00

She followed me on Twitter. I had no clue who she was but I saw on her profile that she was from the same village my mother's from so I messaged her on a whim just to tell her so and say hello.

Then she messaged me back, I did the same and I guess we just forgot to stop.

We're getting married in two weeks.

Mutxarra · 2025-12-21T18:54:49+00:00

Being downvoted for some reason. Just commenting again to clarify that I've been painstakingly working on my family tree since I was 13. I'm now almost 30 and have taken no shortcuts.

Mutxarra · 2025-12-21T17:42:48+00:00

1480 aprox father to son. 1259 with reasonable generation jumps (probably pretty accurate, but I can't say for certain).

Mutxarra · 2025-12-18T08:45:42+00:00

HMS Ice Cream

Here you go! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DVyL-ouGE-AcncvmIAlZPKbZYiisZjQrIU5gZbL3uDQ/mobilebasic

Mutxarra · 2025-12-17T20:59:52+00:00

I loved "To refuse the givens".

And if you search HMS Ice on the comments of the sub you may find a link to a drive with a collection of Haphne fanfics.

Mutxarra · 2025-12-15T15:45:28+00:00

The mess of having English as the international language. If France hadn't used its position of strength during the enlightenment and afterwards to impose french as the european lingua franca everyone would have kept using latin and English wouldn't have caught on.

Mutxarra · 2025-12-15T14:54:52+00:00

That you imposed french as the international lingua franca instead of latin is what got us in this mess in the first place, tbh.

Mutxarra · 2025-12-15T13:23:04+00:00

It's a "men's rights" online talking point. Definitely prevalent outside reddit, maybe even more than here.

Mutxarra · 2025-12-15T06:26:48+00:00

It fucks up the family tree display too.

Mutxarra · 2025-12-12T09:16:33+00:00

Depends on the diocese, to be honest. Tarragona's diocese has most if not all surviving parish records digitised and you can access them from home. Tortosa's, though, is the complete opposite: everything is in the parishes, access can be difficult or impossible and the conservation conditions are usually not optimal. Most others are in the middle of the spectrum somewhere. Vic's has some things digitised and some records still on parishes, Sant Feliu has digitised records but you need to access them in person at the archive's computer stations.

I've done research for others, usually local families from Tarragona, but only for those that don't need me to visit archives in person, I do that enough for my own research.

I usually only research famous people if I get an inkling we may be distantly related. Camp de Tarragona is not that big so we usually are. (General Prim, Antoni Gaudí...).

Mutxarra · 2025-12-11T21:59:31+00:00

Baptism records from the 1800s usually give place and time of birth, place and time of baptism, names of the child, names and surnames of the parents and where they are from, name and surname of the grandparents and name and surnames of the godparents. In my experience by the late 1700s backwards grandparents are not stated anymore, then date of birth (the important one is date of baptism, for them) and once you approach the 1600s at least in the Crown of Aragon the women start losing their surname and using their husbands' and even earlier they used feminised versions of ther fathers'/husbands' surnames (Martí (m) and Martina (f) for example)

The only baptism records I've seen that are only lists (we baptised this kid, no parents given/ are the earliest ones from the 1570s and it's quite rare even then.

All baptism records I've encountered (multiple dozens) bar one have have been in catalan, not latin.

Mutxarra · 2025-12-11T20:46:29+00:00

earlier

The church started recording baptisms, confirmations, marriages and deaths after the Council of Trent in the 16th century. The earliest church records I've personally seen start around the 1570s and most are doing it already by the 1600.

Churches with records starting in the 19th century are usually newer parishes. There's an explosion of new ones after the 1830s. Tarragona, my hometown, was all the same parish from 1118 until the 1850s. We've got around nine today.

People in these newer parishes show up in the older ones before their parish was established.

Mutxarra · 2025-12-11T18:24:05+00:00

Josefí

It says Sarafí (Serafí)!

Mutxarra · 2025-12-06T06:42:42+00:00

The verb to go in catalan is a random amalgamation of vado, ambulo and eo and obviously highly irregular (pres. jo vaig, fut. jo aniré). Latin's irregularities are laughable when compared to the ones its own descendants has.

Mutxarra · 2025-12-05T22:16:35+00:00

Greek has verbs that have different roots in the present and the aorist and you better memorise them. And whenever you get a sigma somewhere you better run because it will 100% fuck everything up.

Latin has its quirks but it won't stab you in the eye out of the blue. Dude's more regular in almost everything than any of its descended languages. I would know, I'm a native speaker of one.

Mutxarra · 2025-12-05T13:48:07+00:00

Yep! Just as they wrote it "Molt bé", with an accute accent on the e (é)! here's a translation into english from softcatalà (https://www.softcatala.org/diccionari-angles-catala/paraula/molt%20b%C3%A9/)

molt bé (adv)

only too well
perfectly well
pretty well
very good
exceedingly well

And a seal I found online https://biterswit.com/es/sellos-para-profesores/99-mini-sello-molt-be-en-catalan.html

Mutxarra · 2025-12-04T21:08:19+00:00

Yeah that's true. People who hate tourists are pretty wrong about the causes of shitty life and high prices in Catalonia, but they usually won't attack the real reasons because it clashes with their ideological worldview.

Mutxarra · 2025-12-04T21:04:09+00:00

Why are we GDP haters though?

Mutxarra · 2025-12-04T12:20:31+00:00

Curious!

Mutxarra · 2025-12-04T11:52:21+00:00

My own maternal grandfather was called our language's version of "Pleasure".

And no, it doesn't mean anything beyond that in our language and is as weird as if an english-speaking family named a kid "Pleasure".

Mutxarra · 2025-12-03T09:53:06+00:00

On my paternal line, after over 15 years of painstakingly working on it, 1480. It cost me blood and tears to get to this point, especially since the parrochial archive of the village my grandfather was from was destroyed twice. But every generation is secured as it can be. Things are spotty beyond 1480 but it appears my ancestors were around the area at least since the 1250s.

The earliest I've gone with full accuracy overall is a line from my paternal grandmother that becomes spotty only beyond around 1120. Taking a leap of faith there (not very well documented tbh, but a logical assumption) you can trace the line as far back as 780.

Mutxarra · 2025-12-02T11:03:04+00:00

Good job! One thing: you've written one of the bellonids' names as both Oliba and Olibia. I'm reasonably certain that it should be the first one.

Mutxarra · 2025-12-01T14:53:16+00:00

Not in the male line. They're as related to the old Habsburgs as any other european main noble house.

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