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Re: Weird LDS parish register "transcription"

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On 21/11/17 18:48, Steve Hayes wrote:
> I was checking some family history information on FamilySearch and
> came across this in one of the research hints:
>
> === begin quote ===
> John George Southern
> England Births and Christenings
> Name 	John George Southern
> Residence Place 	Wingate, Durham, England
> Gender 	Male
> Christening Date 	27 Jan 1869
> Christening Date (Original) 	27 Jan 1869
> Christening Place 	Wingate, Durham, Eng.
> Father's Name 	Richard Southern
> Race 	White
> England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
> Indexing Project (Batch) Number 	C00586-5
> System Origin 	England-EASy
> GS Film number 	1514658
> Reference ID 	1869 pg.12-96
> Citing this Record
>
> "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch
> (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NXZB-XHP : 30 December 2014,
> John George Southern, ); citing Wingate, Durham, Eng., index based
> upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake
> City; FHL microfilm 1,514,658.
>
> === end quote ===
>
> 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.

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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" johnb <john1@s145802280.onlinehome.fr> - 2017-11-21 20:00 +0100
    Re: Weird LDS parish register "transcription" Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2017-11-28 08:17 +0200
      Re: Weird LDS parish register "transcription" Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr> - 2017-11-28 09:18 +0100
  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" Chris Dickinson <chris@dickinson.uk.net> - 2017-11-22 02:41 -0800
        Re: Weird LDS parish register "transcription" Charles Ellson <ce11son@yahoo.ca> - 2017-11-22 19:16 +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" Daniel Morgan <daniel.f.morgan@gmail.com> - 2017-11-21 11:16 -0800
    Re: Weird LDS parish register "transcription" "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2017-11-22 02:59 +0000
      Re: Weird LDS parish register "transcription" Ian Goddard <goddai01@hotmail.co.uk> - 2017-11-22 09:21 +0000
    Re: Weird LDS parish register "transcription" Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr> - 2017-11-22 08:50 +0100
  Re: Weird LDS parish register "transcription" "Gordon" <gordonwb@argonet.co.uk> - 2017-11-22 14:34 +0000
  Re: Weird LDS parish register "transcription" Guy Etchells <guye@anguline.co.uk> - 2017-11-24 08:00 +0000
    Re: Weird LDS parish register "transcription" "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2017-11-28 01:42 +0000
      Re: Weird LDS parish register "transcription" Charles Ellson <ce11son@yahoo.ca> - 2017-11-28 02:39 +0000
        Re: Weird LDS parish register "transcription" Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2017-11-28 08:25 +0200
          Re: Weird LDS parish register "transcription" Charles Ellson <ce11son@yahoo.ca> - 2017-11-28 07:26 +0000
        Re: Weird LDS parish register "transcription" Guy Etchells <guye@anguline.co.uk> - 2017-11-28 15:25 +0000
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