Missing catalogue entries
Hi,
When looking through the evangelical church books for Johannisburg (marriages 1766-1837) I've noticed that the years 1772-1781 are missing from the resource, even though according to the description they should be included. Is it possible to check whether this is a scanning issue and they have been accidentally omitted - in which case, would it be possible for them to be scanned and added online - or are they missing from the original source? (In which case the resource dates should be changed so as to avoid confusion). Link to the church book: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS81-RH12?mode=g&cat=216571
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I presume you mean DGS 102672590, covering
Heiraten 1766-1837 (l. S.) Heiraten 1766-1837 (r. S.)
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My ability to decipher the handwriting is minimal, but some random searches, isolated to marriages between 1772 and 1781, on just that DGS, returned multiple entries, most in 1781.
If an entry in the catalog is incorrect, there is a system for requesting a correction. For the most part, however, the catalog has been locked for several years. It has not been updated, and there are no plans to do so.
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In the right-hand pages, image 300 is labeled as page 21 in the filming header, and as the end of 1771 on the page. Image 301 is labeled as page 22 and 1781/82. Image 302 is page 24, no year label to be found.
Meanwhile, over in the left-hand pages, it goes from page 20 on image 13 (labeled 1771) to page 23 on image 14 (year not labeled, that I can find).
So the sequence is 13-300-301-14-302, going by page numbers. The year was not written on every page, unfortunately, so we have 1771-1771-1781/82-??-??.
Item numbers: image 301 is 1 to 15, image 14 is 16 to 24, image 302 starts with 25.
Summary: unless the missing decade is somewhere out of sequence, this is not a filming error, but an original recording gap. It is possible that the register-book lost those pages before someone subsequently went in and numbered the pages. It is also possible that they were not all lost, just put back in the wrong spots, so now they've been misidentified as whatever years are sporadically actually labeled before and after them.
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Thank you for responding. Yes, that's the church book I mean, sorry for the wrong link! The left and right-hands sides had been scanned separately so it's a bit of a nuisance to follow the sequence but I've looked through all the scans in order and the missing years are not there, so they haven't been mislabelled or put out of sequence.
Some marriages from 1781 come up in the search as part of that year is included but others are indexing mistakes - for example, a couple of entries tagged as 1774 are in fact from 1794.
Most likely the entries are missing from the original source, which is a real shame as these are the exact years I'm interested in and was really hoping to be able to look through them. The original books are kept in the Leipzig State Archives so I'll get in touch with them to confirm that years 1771-81 are also missing from the source material.0
