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Re: Weird LDS parish register "transcription"

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On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 19:15:28 +0000, Ian Goddard
<goddai01@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

>> My question is:
>>
>> Which denomination, operating in Wingate in County Durham in 1869,
>> recorded the race of people being baptised, but not the name of the
>> mother?
>>
>> Or is this not actually a transcription at all, but just some clown
>> entering stuff that isn't there, and leaving out stuff that is there?
>>
>> An image of the register was not available when I looked, but I wonder
>> if anyone who has access to that particular record can confirm that it
>> mentioned the race, but not the name of the mother.
>>
>> I accept that transcroptions can be inaccurate, but transcribers
>> making stuff up is somwething else.
>
>I think what happens is that a transcriber has an input screen which 
>doesn't clear between entries; they just overtype the names & dates and, 
>supposedly the parish when they start on a new parish or church.  The 
>reason I think this happens is that I've seen transcriptions where they 
>appear to have switched from one church to another and end up with a 
>field like Residence Place displaying contents from another parish - 
>they've just not noticed that they've run onto a new batch of data.
>
>It looks as if, in this case, they've strayed onto Wingate from some 
>other place where race would be a field to capture.

That's quite possible, I suppose. 

Another question related to this is that they quite often put in a
"Residence" field, but After looking at a number of them I am quite
sceptical about this, because I don't think it is transcribed from the
"Abode" field of CofE registers, but rather taken from the location of
the parish church itself. 

This can be misleading, as people sometimes lived some distance from
the parish church. Where FamilySearch make an image available (which
they sometimes do), I try to check the Abode and Occupation fields,
but this is not always possible. 




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Weird LDS parish register "transcription" Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2017-11-21 20:48 +0200
  Re: Weird LDS parish register "transcription" Ian Goddard <goddai01@hotmail.co.uk> - 2017-11-21 19:15 +0000
    Re: Weird LDS parish register "transcription" Charles Ellson <ce11son@yahoo.ca> - 2017-11-22 03:06 +0000
      Re: Weird LDS parish register "transcription" Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2017-11-28 07:52 +0200
    Re: Weird LDS parish register "transcription" Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2017-11-28 07:49 +0200
      Re: Weird LDS parish register "transcription" Charles Ellson <ce11son@yahoo.ca> - 2017-11-30 00:04 +0000
        Re: Weird LDS parish register "transcription" Charles Ellson <ce11son@yahoo.ca> - 2017-11-30 01:08 +0000
  Re: Weird LDS parish register "transcription" "Gordon" <gordonwb@argonet.co.uk> - 2017-11-22 14:34 +0000

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