How should I call each layer?
Hi, can I have your help to learn the right names for each layer for information I see?
As an example, see this:
Here is a photographic image of some old books ("volumes"?)
How should I call the chunk of text that describes the event of a baptism? ("record"?)
On top of the photograph, there is a layer composed of yellow rectangles. How do you called that layer, and the rectangles?
This view of the old image and the yellow rectangles comes with another layer, a large list of names surrounded by a fence. Sometimes the fence is seen with a white border, that mostly coincides with the particular event, but sometimes it is wrong and overlaps.
Anyway, how should I call the subset of names from "Maria Manuela Ozma" to "Maria Leonor Yusque"? "record"?
The whole list of names, is it called an "index"?
Ideally, should every name in a "record" be tied with a set of yellow rectangles ("highlight")?
Answers
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In American English, the old books/volumes are generally referred to as registers - parish register, baptism register, marriage register, etc.
The individual baptism is referred to as a record.
The orange rectangles are highlights of fields that have been indexed - usually names or locations.
The white field on the right contains the indexed information. Generally, on FamilySearch, that is referred to as the index. It's an extract from the record. Other genealogy websites use other terms that are often not quite right. FindMyPast, for example, refers to that extracted information as a transcription. Sometimes the index is called a record, but it shouldn't be. The index is a finding aid - names or words pulled from the original image, by human indexers or by computer indexing programs, to make the record findable for a researcher.
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