Death Dates in Norwegian Lutheran records in Iowa
Not a question, but I believe the instructions direct the indexer to record the baptism date as the death date. There are many instances were the birthdate is shown, then the baptism date and then a confirmation date following, Just thought I'd ask someone to take a look and adjust if necessary!
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Do you have a batch number that we can look at, please?
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US, Iowa - Evangelical Lutheran Church records, Norwegian church books, 1872-1918 [M373-463]
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We are not seeing any instructions to indicate indexing baptisms as death records. Do you have an example?
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If you go into the example pictures with the red boxes indicating what data should be indexed it shows the baptism dates labeled as death dates.
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When you click on the purple question marks next to the boxes where the info should he entered, these examples are options to click on
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In the example records, the date has some version of the Norwegian word "dap" next to the indicated date which I believe means baptism.
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Dap does mean baptism in Norwegian. What version of dap are you seeing?
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'do'd' means death in Norwegian. That is the word I am seeing. Is this what you are referring to?
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Yes, that's what I'm seeing. It seemed that they were all the same year as the birth year and came before the confirmation year.
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We went over them carefully checking for the chronology and found the do'd always was later than the birth ad other dates so the instructions are good.
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My mistake, sorry making extra work
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