Christening record, Cuautitlán, México, México, 1753?

davidleelambert

I'm trying to find additional evidence to support or contradict my guess that Miguel Lino // (M4SJ-3WR), christened 1753?, is a child of Valentin Joseph /de Santiago/ (MFVG-KS8) and Alberta María // (MFVG-KSY), married 1742.

Miguel's profile has exactly one source, with description "This extracted record was used to create this person in Family Tree" and further system note "We are unable to display the record for this source. Please try again later."

For several years until a few weeks ago almost every extracted-from-christening profile in this location had a second source with the same information as the profile and a link to the film (but not the particular image) from which it was extracted. However, since a few weeks ago, most of those sources appear to be gone.

So I went through all the films in that location covering that date, and in each film all the volumes covering that date, with no success:

DGS#	Film Title	FHL film	vol núm	vol años	vol title	image(s)	date(s)
4596048	Bautismos 1727-1771	645471	15	1724-1771	Baptysmos de el Pueblo de San Francisco Tehnopalco	324-5	Aug 30-Nov 13, 1753
4596049	Bautismos 1741-1757	645472	18	1741-1757	Baptismos delos naturales del Pueblo de S.ta Maria nativitas de tultepeque	63-64	Sep 23-Oct 8, 1753
4596049	Bautismos 1741-1757	645472	20	1744-1756	Bautismos de Españoles	359	Sep 27-Oct 1, 1753
4596049	Bautismos 1741-1757	645472	21	1744-1757"	Baptismos de el Pueblo de San Miguel	426	Sep 23-Oct 8, 1753
4596050	Bautismos 1750-1764	645473	22	1750-1757	Baptismos delos Yndios desta Parroquia de Quauhtitlan	90	Sep 25-Oct 4, 1753
4596050	Bautismos 1750-1764	645473	23	1751-1752	Baptismos de los tres Pueblos de Stã Barbara, de Sⁿ Matheo, y de Sⁿ Lorenzo	201	Sep 25-Oct 3, 1753
4596050	Bautismos 1750-1764	645473	24	1753-1772	Baptismos deste Pueblo de Sta Ysabel dela Visitacion	341-2	Sep 23-Oct 9, 1753

So it could be that the profile's date (and perhaps other information) was mis-extracted; or perhaps the christening was recorded out-of-order, or on a page that fell out and was replaced somewhere else in any of the volumes.

Is there any way to get the original film-link again, to at least narrow my search to one film, not three?

Áine.ní.Donnghaile

@davidleelambert
Have you tried using full-text search on that collection? That might narrow your search a little.

davidleelambert

I had tried full-text search for other inquiries related to this collection, and after @Áine.ní.Donnghaile 's suggestion I tried it here, without success.

I did find the entry I was looking for just by browsing around, in fact it was in the next image after one of those I had identified as candidates, image 343 on FHL film 645473. The date was extracted correctly, but the entry is out-of-order, between one dated July 11th, 1754, and one dated October 4th, 1754. Perhaps the priest forgot to record it in 1753, and then remembered it a year later when the saints' day (Michael, Gabriel and Raphael) rolled around again?

But the full-text index for that entry is as follows.

En Veinte y nueve de Septiembre de Setedo y Sin sesenta y dos ↔ ↔ ↔ ⌨ ⌨ ⌨ ⌨ ⌨ ⌨ ⌨ ⌨ ⌨ ⌨ ⌨ ⌨ ⌨ ⌨ Niño , hijo legítimo Bauticé Solemnemente a Miguel ⌨ ⌨ ⌨ Lauriana de Elentin Joseph , y de ⌨ ⌨ verta ⌨ ⌨ ⌨ ⌨ ⌨ fue Madrina Ana Beronica . y lo firmé ✓

It has the date spelled out and wrong by a year (1752!), the child's name as just "Miguel", the father's name as "Elentin Joseph" (here written "Valentin Joseph", but written "Balentin" in other places), and the mother's name as just "verta". And the machine-indexed person index wasn't much better, it had the fixed word "Solem.te" ("Solemnemente", meaning "Solemnly") indexed as "Yglemte" and identified as the name of the christened child, with no relationships.

Áine.ní.Donnghaile

@davidleelambert I'm glad you found the record you needed.

Full-text is imperfect, but it is another tool. I sometimes rely on it to find a date near the one I need so I can browse fewer pages of difficult handwriting.

I, too, have seen the handwriting OCR misread or hallucinate dates - 1953 for 1853 or 1853 for 1843. But, it can still shorten the time to find the record we want.