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South Africa, Johannesburg—Cemetery Records,No heading on the record

Lorrie Ruth Maughan Riches
Lorrie Ruth Maughan Riches ✭
January 22, 2023 edited August 16, 2024 in Get Involved/Indexing

South Africa, Johannesburg—Cemetery Records, 1942–2020 [Part F][MQ3F-1QV]

There are no headings on the information columns on this record. I don't know if a date if for birth, death or burial. I also don't know what column is the cemetery name. I need to be able to identify the field before I can index them.

Thank you for any help you can offer.

Lorrie Riches

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  • gary_noble
    gary_noble ✭✭✭
    January 22, 2023 edited January 22, 2023

    Unfortunately this same problem is going to keep recurring. The way the project is set up this info does not show on most batches. Column headings are only viewable on the first image of the film. This current batch is from Avalon Cemetery

    avalon.JPG


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  • TaylorWally
    TaylorWally ✭
    January 23, 2023

    Same challenge. Thank you, gary_noble!

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  • hectorfernandotorres1
    hectorfernandotorres1 ✭
    January 24, 2023 edited January 24, 2023

    I am having trouble deciding what the columns mean in a South African burial register.

    South Africa, Johannesburg—Cemetery Records, 1942–2020 [Part F][MQ3F-1DT] The images I could reference to, are too far back or too far forward to see what they mean. Could someone clue me in?

    Screen Shot 2023-01-23 at 10.04.43 PM.png

    Thank you!

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  • maryellenstevensbarnes1
    maryellenstevensbarnes1 ✭✭✭✭✭
    January 24, 2023 edited January 27, 2023

    Hi @hectorfernandotorres1 Gary Nobel has an excellent answer, you may want to print out his screen shot (snip) so you can refer to it throughout this project 😎

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  • DAVVK1
    DAVVK1 ✭
    January 24, 2023

    Thank you for this information, gary.noble. It is very helpful!

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  • DAVVK1
    DAVVK1 ✭
    January 24, 2023

    Does column 13 refer to the date and time of the burial?

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  • gublerholly
    gublerholly ✭
    January 24, 2023

    @gary_noble Do all of the images that match this particular column format come from Avalon Cemetary or should we be leaving the cemetary name field blank?

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  • gary_noble
    gary_noble ✭✭✭
    January 25, 2023

    @DAVVK1 yes it is date of burial, although column heading is cut off @gublerholly images coming through may be mixed, and therefore not necessarily all be Avalon, although the current ones do seem to be. Please see my post on how to find cemetery names

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  • DAVVK1
    DAVVK1 ✭
    January 26, 2023

    Thank you, Gary.

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  • rosannalockett1
    rosannalockett1 ✭
    January 26, 2023

    South Africa, Johannesburg—Cemetery Records, 1942–2020 [Part F][MQ3J-8KB]


    This is the batch I'm working on. There are lots of dates on the paper but no heading as to what they signify.

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  • Sagers, William Harrison
    Sagers, William Harrison ✭
    January 26, 2023

    I am currently indexing South Africa, Johannesburg—Cemetery Records, 1942–2020 [Part F][MQ3J-YX2] and for one image it has the normal cemetery records for twins, the next image has a person requesting permission to change the previous gravestone. It doesnt have any new information, it just is requesting permission to change the gravestone. How should I index this image or should I put it as no extractable data?

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  • livelite
    livelite ✭
    January 26, 2023

    Could I get the headers for my batch to confirm which data is indexable?

    South Africa, Johannesburg—Cemetery Records, 1942–2020 [Part F][MQ36-MTP]

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  • Wilkerson, Joyce
    Wilkerson, Joyce ✭
    January 27, 2023

    Thank you!

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  • Maile L
    Maile L ✭✭✭✭✭
    January 27, 2023

    Several discussions have been found with questions about South Africa, Johannesburg—Cemetery Records, 1942–2020 [Part F], particularly about the header. All these discussions have been merged into one with the intent that everyone can get the help they need without too much duplication. I hope this works well for you.

    I did edit a few posts that had links to a conversation that include this merge. Hopefully this flows better. Good luck.

    Maile 🙂

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  • Lori Lyons Nuffer
    Lori Lyons Nuffer ✭
    January 27, 2023
    https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/comment/490994#Comment_490994

    Gary - where can I find your post on how to find cemetery names?

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  • Conrad, Madilynn Mercedes
    Conrad, Madilynn Mercedes ✭
    January 28, 2023

    I'm trying to help with this one too and was trying to piece together the information with the columns given here. Is the initials the given name or the next of kin? Because I thought the next of kin was the person they were most closely related to... I'm just not really sure where the given name is found.

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  • livelite
    livelite ✭
    January 28, 2023 edited January 28, 2023

    Hi

    Can someone tell me if column 2, 7 or 9 are death dates?


    South Africa, Johannesburg—Cemetery Records, 1942–2020 [Part F][MQ36-MTP]

    image.png


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  • LarryClark43
    LarryClark43 ✭✭✭✭
    January 28, 2023

    Hi livelite, when I tried to go back to the originals for this batch, the number given under About Batch led to a dead end. For this reason I was not able to find the column headings.

    column #9 has both a date and a time. This would most likely be the burial date and time. #7 is a few days before the burial so I assume this would be the date of death. #1 and #2 are probably the invoice number and invoice date. The last column re-open just indicates that they are using a previous grave site for an additional burial.

    I Hope this is helpful🙂

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  • livelite
    livelite ✭
    January 29, 2023

    Thanks Larry but without conclusive headers to confirm, I will need to return the batch

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