Daily Ancestornotarius
Notarius is Latin for a notary, a clerk or a secretary, someone who wrote down official business.
Notarius first named a person who took down speech in shorthand in an official role. From that came the senses clerk, secretary and notary.
In a parish book it may describe a witness or godparent. In civil and notarial records it is the man who wrote the document, and his name can lead you to other records he made.
As seen in a recordLatin marriage register, Austria, 1790s
Testis: Andreas Lessauer, notarius oppidi
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