Where can I find more information from birth records like this? (Slovak, 1850s)

Dávid874

I am trying to get more information about my relative, I have her name on this list at her birth year but there are just 2 numbers there... Where can I find these pages and get more information?

(and I don't speak the slovak language)

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GR7W-93GN?view=explore&groupId=M9SX-89B

Julia Szent-Györgyi

I just answered your duplicate question in the Search category (https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/comment/545656#Comment_545656).

The way I got to the catalog page (which I find vastly more usable than the Images-style mess that the editor-and-viewer uses) was to truncate your link at the question mark (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GR7W-93GN), go to the Information tab at the bottom, find the entry with "Zoznam ..." and the right year range, and click the link on that line.

And the way I got to Barbara's index detail page was to click the magnifying glass on the catalog page, put in Barbara for the given ("first") name, and 1854-1854 for the birth (https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=100&q.birthLikeDate.from=1854&q.birthLikeDate.to=1854&q.filmNumber=4948230&q.givenName=Barbara). The desired entry was the second on the list, but to make absolutely certain I'm not missing another baptism below all the ones with parents named Barbara, I can filter for birthplace or birth year to make it show me only birth/baptism records from this film (https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=100&q.birthLikeDate.from=1854&q.birthLikeDate.to=1854&q.filmNumber=4948230&q.givenName=Barbara&c.birthLikePlace1=on&f.birthLikePlace0=5).

Dávid874

Thanks a lot, it help me a lot, but I don't really understand how did you get to page where you could search the names, could you please show it to me, step by step? Only if it's not a big deal for you!

Christopher Kovach_1

Julia Szent-Györgyi

I was unable to follow your instructions on my Android phone—there is no information tab at the bottom of the catalog page.

Perhaps Dávid874 is in the same boat.

Julia Szent-Györgyi

Like nearly everything on FS, there's more than one way to do this. Sorry that my first try was apparently so unclear! (And sorry, Christopher, but I failed Phone and don't do apps.)

So, starting with the link that Dávid gave (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GR7W-93GN?view=explore&groupId=M9SX-89B), I first of all truncate that at the question mark: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GR7W-93GN. This takes me to the "old" image viewer (which I think of as "the catalog's image viewer").

This has two tabs at the bottom: "Image Index" (empty in this case) and "Information". The latter has the description lines from the catalog that apply to this film; I find the one that I want (by looking for that Z-word) and click the link at the beginning of that line. (See screenshot in my first reply, above.) This takes me to the catalog page for the church.

I scroll down on that page to the "Film/Digital Notes" section and note that the line I need is unfortunately not online (film reel icon), but that there are index entries associated with it (magnifying glass icon).

I click that magnifying glass to go to Search - Records (https://www.familysearch.org/search/), with the film number field filled in.

(The film number field is labeled "Image Group Number (DGS) or Film Number" and is almost all the way at the bottom of the right-hand panel.) On that search page, I can for example put in Barbara for the given ("first") name, and then filter the results, using the grey bubbles at the top left, to bithdates in the 1850s (https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=100&q.filmNumber=4948230&q.givenName=Barbara&c.birthLikeDate1=on&f.birthLikeDate0=1800&f.birthLikeDate1=1800~1850). This gives 30 results, with the desired Barbara Krózser about midway down.

(I seldom use surnames in searches. They get misindexed too readily, and FS's matching algorithms can be unpredictably dumb about them. According to FS, Nyiri is not a match to Nyiry, and Debreceni is a different name than Debreczeni. [Both pairs are actually Exactly The Same Thing.])

Another way to achieve the same thing is to find the film or image group number using your favorite method, copy it, go to Search - Records using the top menu on any main-site FS page, click "More Options", choose the film number field, scroll down [grr, arrgh] to actually use said field, and paste the film number into it.