Scottish Lanarkshire records layout

SPierce7

I have been reviewing the Lanarkshire records and have found one marked no extractable data when it is in fact a birth/christening record. Some of these records are written as a text and not laid out as series of entries. Indexers may have been confused by the series of names and the initials L S or L D which stand for lawful son/ daughter. N S/D would be natural son/daughter i.e. illegitimate. The other names are the parents and the witnesses to the christening.

I hope this is helpful for those indexers unused to this layout.

Sheena

PiperTWilson

Hello @SPierce7,

Would you be able to share the batch number or a screenshot so that others can see exactly what you're looking at?

Melissa S Himes

The screenshot would be best since once a batch is submitted it can no longer be viewed.

SPierce7

This is the batch number

https://www.familysearch.org/indexing/batch/9a256caa-4eea-4c7d-90d4-8e572683d658

I have also included a screenshot below as requested.

Screenshot SPierce.PNG

Sheena

AndLinda

@Melissa S Himes, would you be able to take a look at this screenshot, please? Thank you.

Melissa S Himes

Thanks for the tag, Linda.

I think that project is complete for this part. But, that would be an excellent example to use to show indexers that it is a birth/christening record.

There is so much to be gleaned from that screenshot!

Matthew Limbum Stockinger & Janet Scott a LS James Bo 12 Witn: Jas Limbum & Wm Scott Th Coate E (I'm guessing that third name is clergy?)

The example could show indexers/reviewers that James is the primary and a male. It could point out that those are occupations and not surnames, i.e., Stockinger, or John Thomson Potter, and there are lots of Taylors, which could be surnames, but, based on the pattern are most likely men who were tailors. An example like this would also benefit indexers with a Note on the example explaining the abbreviations (LS LD NS ND). Sheena, I would love to know if 12 was a birth day and the month and year are blank? Or is Bo an abbreviation for something else? That would be another field for an example.

Most likely there was a project instructions not to mark any record as No Extractable Data if you didn't know what it was, but, it not, there should be on the next part.

Quite a good find to share!

SPierce7

Thank you for your remarks. They make me feel I am helping. You are right - bo is short for born and the 12 was the day but month or year is blank.

Sheena