Kinces, Diana: Tăşnad. Chid cultural. Istoric (Satu Mare, 2015)
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13 Hungarians and 34 Jewish. In 1857 the locality had a Greek Catholic priest, an official, 62 land owners and 10 industrialists. In 1910 the locality had 734 people and in 1938 had 816 inhabitants. The census from 2011 mentioned in Cig 401 inhabitants of which 341 Orthodox, 7 Romano Catholics, 13 Greek Catholics and 11 Calvinists. A confessional school existed in the village alongside with the church, in 1878 the teacher Nicolae Mureşianu was teaching in the school of wood, to no more than 50 children. The new brick school was built in 1902 and in 1922 became a state school. The Orthodox Church the Saints Archangels Michael and Gabriel The conscription of Micu Klein mentions the existence of a wooden church even before 1733. The present church was built on the initiative of the priest Grigore Pop in 1886 with the amount of 10000 koroane. In 1935 the Greek Catholic church has been restored for the amount of 40000 lei, being recorded in the Golden Book of Sălaj county as a chief accomplishment of the community. The current iconostasis of the church was made in 1976 by Bocskai Mihai from Crucişor and painted by Grigore Popescu from Bucharest. The interior painting was done by Mircea Constanţinescu in 1990. Sărăuad The village is mentioned in documents in 1279, but apparently there are references of it in the Register of Oradea in the years 1205 to 1235, where is mentioned a place called Sorloud, identified by some historians with the Sărăuad village. The archaeological discoveries in Sărăuad area dates back to the Neolithic and Bronze Age, not missing medieval discoveries, especially from the point Pusta St. Nicolae. There are a lot of documents that talk about the owners of the village during the Middle Ages, such as: the families Pongrácz, Becske, Csaholy etc., but very important is that since 1475, in a list of villages that paid bills to the royal office appear also the waivode from Sărăuad (Zarwad wayvode) who gave in the name of the bondmen from village an amount of 18 florins and 3 dinars. Only at the beginning of the eighteenth century we have documents for the situation regarding the population, so in 1715 were 13 heads of serfs' families, who paid taxes, of which 7 were Romanian and 6 Hungarian. The census of 1733,
