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Aleksander Panjek and Miha Zobec
Figure 4.3 Share of Černe Godfathers Outside the family Related to All Non-Černe
Baptisms in Tomaj Village, 1690–1914
Notes Light columns – share of godfathers, black dots – the share of Černe households in
relation to all households in the village of Tomaj; in percent.
baptisms become intermittent again; in this period, Černe men increas-
ingly acted as godfathers only within their own family (compare figures
4.2 and 4.3).
For a better evaluation of the share of godfatherhoods, the quantita-
tive relation of the Černe family to all the households in Tomaj village rep-
resents an important element. Unfortunately, no data is available on the
families for the early eighteenth century upon which to calculate this ra-
tio. In 1758, the Černe family lived on two farms with a branch on a third
one.¹¹ In the next decades, the expansion of the Černes surpassed the aver-
¹¹ In 1758, the head of one holding was Ivan, Andrej’s son, who lived with his wife and children
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