Baptism records with no dates for birth or baptism, and names in wrong columns
image name is 110182353_00099 and batch ID is MQJC-QT3 There are no dates to be found for birth or baptism, names are written in the date columns. Parent names seem to be sometime mother 1st, others are father's 1st (which is the order of the column names.) I would keep the batch but I do not know what to do with it….type what you see (the names in which column they are in is what I have been told.) I am not sure what the Nomen Xtianumand and Pagnum Is all about. It's supposed to be the baptised person's first and last names. But there seems to be 2 different people entered in that column (are these the god parents)
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From the "What To Index" section of the project instructions:
- Indexes are images with only a name and reference information, such as page or volume number, with no other information, such as dates, available. Indexes should be marked as No, No Extractable Data.
These are names and a reference number, no dates, and the names all start with A, so I believe it is an index. It happens to be written in a baptismal register, but it's completely ignoring its headings as irrelevant and just using it as lined paper.
It doesn't quite fit the definition in the instructions, because it's not "a name": it includes what looks like three people's names per number — but it doesn't look like those are parents, since there's almost no overlap in names. It could be godparents, it could be confirmation sponsors, or it could be parents and they just don't use family names the way we do. Or they didn't record them.
Given the impossibility of determining the event or the relationship between the names, I believe this is "no extractable data".
(For future use: nomen Xtianum [nomen christianum] is "Christian name", nomen paganum is "pagan name". In previous parts of this project, there were instructions about which one to index as the surname and which one as the given name, but I don't see anything in the current instructions or examples. This is probably because they figured out that different clerks used the columns opposite ways.)
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