Hungarian Indexing problem
I have been indexing hundreds of Hungarian BMD records, most in Magyar, and some in German or Latin. No great problem so far, but sometimes the system brings up baptisms in Latin (probably recorded by the parish priest) - but apart from some dates of death being recorded, there are no dates of birth. The system does not seem to offer a blank input form for recording just baptisms, but surely we have something that works? The only entry type offered for these so far are the usual BMD, albeit the data required for each by the Hungarian system varies a bit, with different versions for different source material, so-to-speak.
The latest batch I have is Indexing Tool — FamilySearch.org (click on this link to 1873 baptisms). A heck of a lot of data - but can we input it, or does the system need the addition of baptisms in the entry types available?
I am English, so a reply in English would help, please. I am holding onto this batch for the moment, in the hope someone knows the answer. Thanks.
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The project is titled "Jewish vital registers". Baptisms are by definition not Jewish, and anything written in Latin is extremely unlikely to be "within scope", either.
Have others who have worked on this project encountered such clearly-not-Jewish images? If you did, what did you do with them?
The project instructions are no help: they basically assume that every image will be from a Jewish congregation's records. There are no instructions given for what to do when they're not.
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Thanks Julia. I have found a lot of the records coming up in this project, even for births and deaths, have been in Latin, German, and Magyar, or written on forms that are in those languages. Yes, I have sometimes wondered why they are within the Jewish congregation, although I don't know enough about Judaism to differentiate, and it's clear from some records that they covered more just one religion. I have input data where it's clear the image is either birth, marriage, or death.
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@Brian Keith Kocziban, thanks for reminding me about the existence of this project. I just dipped my feet in again, and happened to get records from my parents' hometown. Teehee.
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Well done, Julia. I'll combine your answers to my English and Hungarian posts, thanks, together with the more 'general' help answer for this situation, and mark the image "no, no extractable data". Thanks for your interpretation of the project instructions - I did look through them, with my very limited knowledge of Magyar, but could find no mention of baptisms. I'll bear this in mind for future Jewish projects. Thank you.
Hopefully I'll come across my father's village eventually!
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