Beverly Cantrill
I am reviewing records which are designated as marriage records. The first column does give a male and female name, but I think it's possibly the parents of the person in the next column, who may be baptized. There are no labels at the tops of the columns.
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You will need to give your batch code so someone can look at the batch you are working on. The batch code is the group of letters and numbers following the batch title at the top of the page. something like M9X7-A1K.
Just copy that number and post it here with your question.🙂
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Actually there are 3 that should be looked at.
M3FK-X62 part D is the one I think is not marriages but baptism
M3X6-539 part C I think part of the image is not showing. I can't see all the information that has been indexed.
M3KK-X6s part D . It has been indexed as baptism. But if that is the case then many people in a row have the same birthdate.
Or maybe I'm just reading these wrong.
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@Beverly Cantrill1 Hi, these are South Africa—Dutch Reformed Church Registers, 1660–1970 and there have been lots of comments/challenges with these so I am tagging @Hester Korff Wolmarans and @Melissa S Himes to see if they can be of help. Best wishes 😎
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Hi, sorry for the late answer. I will look into the matter as quick as I can.
Melissa S Himes, is it OK if I do the first and second one and you the third one? I will ask if there's a querie.
Hester
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Beverly Cantrill, can you please give met a screenshot of the pages you are questioning? There are thousands of records and they are all written differently. Also, there are Baptism-, Marriage-, and Death records in the first batch M3FK-X62 part D.
Remember, you have only the one page in these books that has to be indexed or reviewed.
Thanks
Hester
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I agree with you that the first set of records, M3FK-X62 part D, is baptisms. I am attaching a link from a different source (doop register 1901) where you will see that Alida Barindina Liebenberg was born on April 1 1901 and baptized on May 24 1901. I bet you will be able to find others from your image in this register.
Unfortunately, I cannot see the reference images for M3X6-539 part C and can't pull up the film. But, my guess is that the information is on Reference Image -1 and the previous indexer would have indexed all the information. This image with only the name of the parents and on line 13 and 14, the baptism witnesses, should have been marked No, No Extractable Data in Step 1, UNLESS this is the first image of the record and the child's name is on the next image. We always index the information on the first image of a record that spans two images.
I am restricted from seeing M3KK-X6s part D (that is an odd batch code with a small letter, but a capital S didn't work either). So no help there.
Hope that helps on the other two!
Happy Reviewing!
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Re: Beverly, I have copied a part of Melissa's mail below:
There must be two of her information in this batch M3FK-X62 part D. This one is of the Baptism of her, as in this example. Note that on the bottom is a completely wrong place name (one of the problems that I am querying). The indexer didn't add South Africa next to Hanover. Now this person's family will be furious if they see that their family's address is in Hanover Prussia. The correct place name is in Hanover, Cape Province, South Africa, or if they do not know where Hanover is, the batch name is a dead give away, the batch are of South African children who were baptized in a church. This is a baptism record and it should only indexed with this information: the baptist person's name, surname, gender if asked, full birth date, full baptism date and the parents' names (Vader= Father and Moeder= Mother. The witnesses are not to be indexed, they are just there as to witness the baptism to make it legal.
Further in the batch, I found M3FK-X62, named as a Probate Estate Inventories batch. It is an inventory of all the belongings of what she and her children usually inherits after the death of her husband and it is one of the contents in the Will.
I will see to the rest of the batches in your query, as soon as I are home from a week long visit to my family.
Hester
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