Project: Ireland, Church Records, 1740–1913
Please take care when indexing the Ireland Roman Catholic Registers.
There is a chronic error in the Irish baptism extracts on FMP and Ancestry. The two companies pooled resources and had a single index/extract made, which was then put on both websites. That means the error is in both places. And now that FS is indexing the same records, I see that indexers are making the same mistake.
In baptisms, many priests wrote
Thomas, son of John Holleran and Anastasia Mullen
Just as many - or maybe more - wrote
Thomas Holleran, son of John and Anastasia Mullen
The surname of the child is presumed to be the same as that of the father unless the priest made a note about illegitimacy.
The indexer makes the father's surname Mullen.
Makes no sense, but there it is: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6KB4-67D1
And, of course, on FS, from home, there is no access to the image. You have to go look at FMP or Ancestry or NLI - and we all know how few people actually look at the records. https://search.findmypast.com/record?id=IRE%2FPRS%2FMICROFILM02433-16%2F0005&parentid=IRE%2FPRS%2FBAP%2F0052609
Pollyanna that I am, I was hoping the index on FS would be an improvement.
Please take care when indexing the Ireland Roman Catholic Registers.