The main heroes in this small study are the people who lived their lives mainly in the middle of the 17th century in small towns and villages in the region of Chýnov which lies in the southeast of Bohemia between Tábor and Pelhřimov. Their lives were filled with countless major events but one of the most important thing was certainly the birth of a child. The coming of every new human being was accompanied by a number of specific activities. Many of them were necessary, others useful and some of them were completely useless. One activity that was constantly a part of the first days of a new bom child’s life was baptism. Although at first glance it may appear that the register of child births is nothing but a long list of names of children, parents and godparents, this is incorrect. Birth registers also represent an important source of valuable information which can be used to estimate, among other things, the movements of people at that time over short distances within a limited geographic space and to observe the influence of various types of administrative units on their lives. The research focused on a territory with three parish churches that, in the middle of the 17th century were part of the Chýnov parish and its two chaplains. This regional complex, encompassing several estates, not only represents an area where people owned land and houses and remained almost immobile, but was also a landscape where for a number of reasons people moved from place to place. While it is clear that these shifts cannot be referred to as migrations, they nonetheless involved important moves motivated by economic, social or other reasons. The act of baptism and everything that it involved can also illustrate its influence, as well as the significance of natural conditions, territorial arrangements, the impact of urban locations on the rural environment and the complexity of Church administration during the period after the Battle of White Mountain.