Are these registers really NED Have seen several South Africa Dutch Reformed church records marked
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Ah, yes. I just entered the same/similar question. Looks like a lot of valuable information; I just don't know how to categorize the given info.
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Its ridiculous who keeps indexing them as NED. Wish they would block the person. I have reported over 40 in the last hour. They are baptisms, they must be indexed, but note the PI is wrong. The date shown is birth date not baptism date
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"How to index a baptism 3" FS has incorrectly shown the date as a baptism instead of birth date
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Re: South Africa—Dutch Reformed Church Registers, 1660–1970 [Part C][M3X3-THL]
sherrylannporter1, thank you for adding an example of what you all were talking about.
gary_noble, can you show me on the batch name where it state it is a baptism record? Most of us volunteers does not know how to look up the last four letters in the parenthesis of the batch. It could easily have been a membership record. The first line of the index record (underlined) doesn't say anything other than the indexing information in Afrikaans language: name, date, place, book number and page number.
Thank you for showing us that the error that FS had made and also about the birth date. If it wasn't for you who explained the whole situation and to show out all the errors, we wouldn't have an idea what to do with those batches. Can I please ask you to teach us, the volunteers how to retrieve the actual sources from the batches by looking at the last parenthesis? It makes more sense to retrieve the sources and do the whole batch from there, in stead of do the lines on the indexing pages first. Isn't it double work and time wasted to do the index pages and later the actual sources itself, which will all end up in duplicates anyway?
Just a thought
Regards
Hester
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@Hester Korff Wolmarans the hope was that these indexes would have been just as useful if not more useful, as the indexed baptism, sort of a backup plan b, but sadly this is also turning out to be an absolute mess. In a perfect world, yes the written baptism should suffice, but there are so many foreign people indexing these sa records because "they must" even though they have zero idea what they are doing, dont know the language or names. The baptisms that have already been indexed and published are turning into an absolute dogs breakfast as a result. There are place names used as surnames, surnames omitted altogether, 2nd christian names being used as the surname etc, records that are blank because they have been marked NED, placenames incorrectly standardised to other countries in the world, so a large part are of little use to a researcher relying on search function to find them
Yes you are correct, it is possible to do a look up from the index. These Cape ringbook baptism images are from this catalog https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/968412?availability=Family%20History%20Library Your batch quoted is this image https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSV8-89RD-2?i=1677&cat=968412 and the actual baptism from first line of index, as an example is this one entry 1475 on right hand side https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSK6-39HB-P?i=141&cat=960849 Note the date shown 8 dec 1897 is the birth date as mentioned in discussion
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