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Áine Ní Donnghaile
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June 23 edited June 23 in Indexing

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

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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.

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