"South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1970"
I think my previous email did not reach you, and could've made a mistake by the way I emailed it to you. This is regarding the above batch. It looks as if the entire batch was indexed as Religious Membership records. This is a Baptism Records book. I am attaching the info and have made markings in red.
The records is in Afrikaans and the words on the left are: kind (child who is baptized); geb (gebore, short for born on the date specified); Ouders (Parents) and Get (getuie, short for witnesses) and they could be family or friends, that is why we usually do not index witnesses. Each of these lines were indexed as members of the church and should be corrected.
I was doing updating on my family tree and had to do corrections and updates when I came upon this batch.
Please let me know if you are able to retrieve the whole batch to be re-assessed. I will gladly do the re assessing if you allow me to.
Hope to hear from you soon
Hester
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Hi Gary Noble,
I am working on my family tree and came upon this batch:
These two pages where the child (Kind); parents (ouders); and witnesses (Get:); were indexed as Church Membership Records. This is a book of baptism records and I hope it is only these two pages that are indexed incorrectly.
If you want me to help doing corrections/ reviewing/ indexing, I will gladly help. It cannot be left like this.
Thank you
Hester
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@Hester Korff Wolmarans The best way to get someone's attention it to tag them (this is also sometimes called @mention). Tupe the @ symbol and then start entering their username. A box with usernames should pop up. Choose the name you want in that box and then the name should look like this @gary_noble. The user should be alerted to your "mention" depending on that user's notification preferences.
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Hi Hester, there are so many badly done records in this DRC project, it is disappointing and meaningless to researchers unless they stumble on them by chance. Wrong events selected, missing surnames, missing parents, event places not published because it was just a lump sum project, instead of the projects set up by town
This is what happens when people insist on indexing a foreign language they do not understand. It then goes to a reviewer who also insists on reviewing a foreign language project they do not understand, and just accepts that the indexer knew what they were doing and pushes it through as ok.
FS is highly unlikely to act on withdrawing and reindexing published records, nor following up on who indexed and reviewed the records.
By all means, you are welcome to edit anything you come across, where theres an edit function. Many of the drc records are still uneditable. The caveat to this: many people have all ready highlighted and I have also seen with my own edits - there seems to be some glitch, and some records when edited just disappear and no longer show up in any searches...
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Hi Gary, it is so sad to know that there are people that will never be attached to their family, or exist because of this.
I went through the batch and found that there are a lot of pages indexed wrongly. This specific two pages can not be corrected with the edit, because you cannot change the name type (membership in stead of baptist) of the record this way. One can only hope there are other types of records like marriage or death records to identify the persons in this record. I will try anyway.
FS has to come up with a kind of questionnaire that indexers and reviewers have to answer first before they are allowed to index or review the foreign language records. I am a South African and this is why I have indexed and reviewed only these records, because I do not have enough knowledge of other languages. I would like to help, but it would take a long time to learn. Maybe this would be my future project, to familiar myself through your Help pages of other languages.
Thank you for your help.
Best regards
Hester
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I thought we had covered doing corrections where available in your similar message of 24th Jan?
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Hi Gary, yes we are done with this query. I must have been too hasty to hear from you and wanted to finish it as soon as possible. Thank you 😊
Regards
Hester
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It appears that there were two discussions on the subject of editing South Africa records so I merged them into one place. This seem so be resolved so no answers are necessary, I just want you to know the merge occurred. Maile 🙂
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Thank you Maile
There seem to be many spelling mistakes; those that are two-of-a-kind, and names that were omitted, from the first page sin the whole batch. I am doing spelling corrections and misspelled words at the moment on this batch.
Regards
Hester
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