Bulk update parish registers - Insert parish name to all events - Devon England
Several of the Devon, England, parish registers, sourced from FindMyPast, simply have "Devon" inserted as the place, against every indexed entry, not even the parish name the register relates to. I've manually updated a couple hundred entries, but can someone do a bulk update on the Devon Parish registers, replaceing all instances of "Devon" with the "<Parish Name>, Devon, England, United Kingdom"?
Along similar lines a couple of registers are only partially transcribed / indexed, with many an unindexed page, eg. Holbeton: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939N-QP7Z-G?view=index&cc=1804330&lang=en&groupId=
Any chance of adding a dummy index entry per page, to permit volunteers to have a stab at filling in the blanks?
If it helps, parish registers that are affected (incomplete list) include: Plymouth, Plympton St Mary, Plympton St Maurice, Plymstock, Yealmpton, Holbeton, Newton Ferrers, Ugborough, Ermington, Noss Mayo, …
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and Devon another parish: Egg Buckland
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@AndrewRoberts90 - from possibly fallible memory, this is not the first English county to have its registers appear without the parish. Discussions here failed to reveal why the previous lot were parish-less but suspicions centred on the compiler of the index being unwilling to sell the full version to FS in order to avoid revenue abstraction for their own site. FS didn't confirm or deny this.
Since FMP have the Devon PRs on their own site, subject to subscriptions, it might be that FMP are unwilling to provide the full index to FS and thus imperil their own income. I can't blame them. It would be nice if FS were to confirm this if true.
By the way, a number of Devon parishes refused to allow FMP even, to publish their own data online for fear that the Church of Latter Day Saints would get hold of the data for their own purposes.
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Oh, I’ve bumped into that same Devon issue myself. Sadly, there’s no way for us volunteers to bulk-replace “Devon” with the parish name. FamilySearch only lets you edit entries one-by-one. The root cause is the Findmypast import. Parish details often didn’t come across. For missing pages like Holbeton, those simply were never indexed at all. The only workaround for now is browsing the images directly, or using Findmypast’s full index. I’d suggest flagging the issue in the FamilySearch Community and keeping an eye out for re-index updates. Hopefully their newer AI indexing projects will eventually fix these gaps.
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@AndrewRoberts90 The metadata and citation for the films do contain the parish name so it's possible FamilySearch could add it to individual record's metadata. (I don't know that it would be a high priority in light of more critical place name errors.) In the meantime, a workaround to search only a specific parish would be to search images with the parish name, then copy and paste DGS numbers into search criteria in Search Records.
Also, attaching the image (Save Record button), enables attaching the name of the parish in the citation. Open the image group metadata and copy the citation into notes.
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There are also several entries, that i've stumbled across, who are linked to an image from different page in the 16/17th century Devon registers, before even hitting the issue of some of the 17th century entries being linked to the images of the 19th century civil marriage register.
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Still trying to find a Devon parish register, where i can't find un-transcribed pages, eg.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939N-7DQ1-8?view=index&cc=1804330&lang=en&groupId=
The FindMyPast index is little better :(
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@AndrewRoberts90 Is there a particular person you are searching for? Please provide their Personal ID number in FamilySearch Tree and we can take a look.
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