How do we know these are burials? UK, England, Lancashire—Nonconformist Church Records, 1647–1996
In this batch [MSKW-S68]
https://www.familysearch.org/indexing/batch/15c57e90-1adb-4632-bb1c-2a4ae860b314
How do we know that this is a register of burials since there are no headings visible? Could it not be christenings?
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We have an official answer! These are burial records.
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I'm with you. The sample images don't help. The Project Instruction didn't seem to help - I actually couldn't see reference images - my screen is too small. It wouldn't be a typical christening record unless this is some sort of index ... So the only option left is burial?
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thanks @genthusiast 1 I agree this is not the usual Christening record (which tends to indicate the person's name, father, locality and date) but in reviewing lots of similar records from this period I have seen plently that are in this format (ie just the person's name and locality plus date) that are definitely christenings (ie named as such at the top of the page)
I think they are burials but how to be sure...
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I think to be 'certain' we'd have to look at the roll or images. Maybe find it in the catalog - I know they say not to as Indexers but how else would we know? I'd have to adjust to be able to read those - way to go!
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I love getting one of these batches with old script - I learned to read it a while ago. BYU has a great resource to learn it https://script.byu.edu/. What is remarkable to me is how much the script has changed in a relatively short time: r looked like w, c looked like i without a dot, s had about 3 different forms and there was a letter for "th" that looked like y (which is why "ye olde shoppe" is actually pronounced "the old shop") and that is just the lower case letters, uppercase are a whole other ball game.
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I feel it is unlikely to be Christenings/baptisms, as it would be very unusual not to name at least one parent on the record with the child. Burial records tend to have much less information, as is the case here.
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Excellent! Thanks so much for finding out.
How was that determination made? (for next time this question arises). It's always helpful to have an explanation from the experts so we can learn.
Thanks again
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