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korinnenelson1
korinnenelson1 ✭
July 6, 2021 in Indexing

I am reviewing a batch that has lots of names in each field. Sometimes there are commas between them and sometimes there are not.

Are these relatives? Why are they all on the same line?

Are these baptism records?

All I know for sure is that the handwriting is pretty. :-)


https://www.familysearch.org/indexing/batch/cfee96b2-59fa-4460-be78-36ccc14f2738

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  • AThayneGreen
    AThayneGreen ✭
    July 6, 2021

    Since the records are all sons or daughters of the listed parents I say they are all baptisms. The cases where there are multiple lines are additional children baptized on the same day. Too bad the previous or later batches of the same project are not visible for additional evidence.

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  • Melissa S Himes
    Melissa S Himes ✭✭✭✭✭
    July 6, 2021

    Hi Korinne! Thanks for sharing this beautiful batch with exquisite handwriting!

    These are most likely baptisms and similar to the layout of the example without columns between the child's Christian name and the parents.

    The first name is the person being baptized followed by an S for son or Dr for daughter and then the parents names.

    For example:

    Eliza, Dr [daughter] William & Mary Jarman

    James Richard, S [son] William & Ellis Caroline Cooper

    A few of the people have 3 given names, like Frederick William Harding

    None of the mothers have a prefix of Mrs.

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