What kind of record is this?
The first line of the record translates to read: Left with the certificates to Lady Smith
The fourth line before more names are listed translates to read: Accepted on profession of faith.
Would these be church memberships registers?
Image Name 008148269_00889Batch ID MQ9G-Q6F
P. S. The Google Translate app on my phone has been very helpful with all of these records. The app lets you view them with your camera or type in the words and will translate any language for you. Great resource. These particular records just don't seem to fit any of the examples.
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If you don't even know enough of the language to determine the type of record, then may I please suggest that you return the batch for someone else to do?
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I have done hundreds of these South African records. It is the type of record that is in question. There is no information at the top of these records to indicate the kind it is. I feel very confident in the work I have done thus far with all of these records and find your comment quite rude.
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What kind of record is this?
The batch title shows that it is a Dutch Reformed Church Register, from South Africa.
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@LesterChristieAnn1, I'm sorry that you found my comment offensive; it certainly wasn't meant that way. I have simply dealt with too many completely-wrong indexes of late to condone any indexing in a language you don't know.
I've spent the past three days arguing with a Geni user over the cascading effects of one indexing error. (The indexer(s) took the antepenultimate and penultimate godparents from the preceding entry and turned them into the parents of the next entry: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V53H-QLB.) I also spent basically a full day this week cleaning up legacy-data twiglets that were based on similar indexing errors: godparents as parents, titles as names, fathers as sons, husbands as wives. All of them would have been avoided if people who couldn't read the records had refrained from trying to index them.
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Thank you for sharing your batch, @LesterChristieAnn1
There is one more trick to learn that will help you identify what kind of record you are looking at. You can search these records by image. You already have the image name from looking at About Image on your batch which you included in your post!
Directions in a nutshell (There are more detailed one with pictures somewhere on this chat group):
Click on Search, Click on Images. When the search tool comes up, click on More Options. An Advanced Search box will pop up. Put the first numbers of the Image name in the box titled
Image Group Number (DGS) 008148269
The second set of numbers 889 is the image you are working on.
99% of the time, you will be able to click on the film and get more information. In this case, if you look at images 817-820, I think you will determine they are membership records. Here's a link that should take you there. But, now you can practice on how to do it yourself! Best wishes and Happy Indexing!!!
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Thank you so much Melissa S Himes. I really appreciate you taking the time to explain that to me. I had searched for the image but must have been missing a step, because I could only get a film Number. Thanks for the link too. I was able to immediately search the images and found the type of records that I was unsure about. I don't know why these are not included in the indexing examples for this project. Thanks again for taking the time to understand and see what kind of records these were.
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The detailed instructions are here:
https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/comment/520946#Comment_520946
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That isn't the search function I use, but it works too. I use the Search Images tool. The above link is when you use the Search Catalog tool.
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