Baptisms now link to the Christening Event
Baptisms are now correctly being filed as Christenings!
Scott posted very briefly on a thread that's now closed:
An update to the Source Linker has now been applied.
Baptisms now show as Christenings and a Death Registration facts now shows as Death in the Person Page on Family Tree.
After all these years, I wasn't quite sure I believed that that meant what I hoped it meant, but I was attaching a baptism just now and decided to test it.
Yup, it worked! It was labeled as a baptism in the index, and therefore in Source Linker as well, but the event is in Christening, where it belongs, and it's correctly tagged and everything!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
(Now if we could just convince SL to let us tag items that aren't indexed but nevertheless in the source, such as the birth here…. But I'll try not to get greedy. Baptism == Christening is enough for at least several days of happiness.)
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Julia,
I edited your topic to alert others of the change, and there are plans in place to change how you tag Marriages and eventually most other events.2 -
Had to give an "Awesome" after the "other two" had done so! Seriously though, very pleased of your advising this. Noticed your comments whilst scrolling through "Groups" section last night: ashamed to say I wasn't even a member of this group until joining about 20 minutes ago. Also, that (as with the "New Details / Person Page") I have been carrying on using the old source linker until it's phased out at the end of the month: when I'll just have to adapt to it, of course.
Probably too late now to make any further suggestions to the new version, but I'll read through the previous posts to see what changes I need to be aware of.
Great news about the Baptism = Christening issue, though - will try out for myself later. Just a little wary over the Death Registration being treated as a Death, however, as registration often takes place in the year following and the registration district (in England) often straddles two (or more) counties, making it easy to now present details on the "actual death" (often difficult to verify, I find) that are not strictly accurate. (Possibly wrong year and wrong county, due to the England & Wales registration process - which applies to births and marriages, too, of course.)
A shame Adrian Bruce doesn't appear to be a member of this group as it would be interesting to hear his ideas on the changes you highlight.
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Oh yes he is @Paul W !!
OK - I have yet to check the Baptism and Death Registration out - I only found about Death Registration not setting up a Death event recently so I was surprised at the claim here, but when I found my thread on this topic (shock, horror! I found something in the Community threads!) it was from May 10, so plenty of time for the code to have changed since then.
I am perfectly happy with Death Registration generating a Death event. Given that the de facto dates from the Registration data are whole years (unless something has changed) the error is only possible right at the start of a calendar year. Yes, it is possible that a date of 1894 is generated when the actual date of death is 1893 but I honestly can't see any issue with that. I have always regarded a date comprising a whole year number with no month or day as being inherently just a bit inaccurate. That may come from my maths or physics teaching where every number has a tolerance so I always read 1894 as 1894 +/- 1y. And anyone who doesn't think like me is almost certainly going to be quite relaxed about accepting further death records where there is an exact date at the end of 1893 instead of just 1894.
If @ScottSeegmiller is foreshadowing changes to how marriages are tagged, that could be interesting from several angles.
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I said "… OK - I have yet to check the Baptism and Death Registration out …" in the immediate post above. I've done that now but for a strictly limited number of Source Records - where's a Baptism Event when you want one? But I did find examples of both. Death Registration tags Death and Baptism tags Christening. 👍️
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