Hi Cara Maybe its just the way I read your post but with respect you seem to imply that all batch numbers on newfamilysearch are submitted by other peoples research? The opposite is true at the moment The batch mentioned by the poster C70129-3 is an extraction from the births indexes Quarterly returns of births in Ireland, 1864-1955, with index to births, 1864-1921 authors: Ireland. General Register Office Ireland. General Register Office Ireland. Custom House format: Manuscript/Manuscript on Film language: English publication: Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1953-1954, 1960-1961 physical: 1034 microfilm reels ; 35 mm. Notes Ireland, Civil Registration Indexes are available online, click here. Microfilm of original records in the General Registry, Custom House, Dublin. Births v. 12 1866 Family History Library BRITISH Film 101131 Currently newfamilysearch contains no patron submitted items The IGI is now available on newfamilysearch but contains only extracted data with the submitted data yet to come, the two will be searchable separately When available the submitted data will be called the :- Community Contributed IGI All entries should of course be checked with the original for accuracy, extra detail etc All transcriptions have errors and omissions so its vital to go back to source Some may find the following webinar of interest on searching newfamilysearch <http://broadcast.lds.org/eLearning/fhd/Community/en/FamilySearch/Product_Webinars/Robert_Kehrer_-_June_21_2012/Player.html> Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 24/07/2012 00:40, Cara wrote: > These batch numbers are supplied by researchers like yourself, and they no > nothing more on the child than you have gleaned from their input to the web > site you found it on. > > > When you find in a Church of Ireland parish register a child with no name > you will find it mostly always has added information, for instance it may > say Private Baptism, which usually signified a sickly child or mother was > not well or they were of the upper crust elite part of the church. > I always question these inputs that contain *batch Numbers* or placed in > the LDS files by another researcher, as everyone research is only a > guideline you still have the leg work to do as in regards of proving > anything, nothing unseen by your is proven. >

Thankyou Nivard I stand corrected, my feelings were that this was as in the past where there were batch numbers given as a source so you have now enlightened me and as I said today to a certain person, your input and advice is invaluable I was not actually thinking of newfamilysearch - sorry. It was another site that uses batch numbers but I do not wish to confuse good advice. But the IGI was public input regardless of what they may be saying now. Thankyou will look further into this Cara Apology to all but I have left in Nivard's message as it holds very much welcome information on research. Hi Cara Maybe its just the way I read your post but with respect you seem to imply that all batch numbers on newfamilysearch are submitted by other peoples research? The opposite is true at the moment The batch mentioned by the poster C70129-3 is an extraction from the births indexes Quarterly returns of births in Ireland, 1864-1955, with index to births, 1864-1921 authors: Ireland. General Register Office Ireland. General Register Office Ireland. Custom House format: Manuscript/Manuscript on Film language: English publication: Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1953-1954, 1960-1961 physical: 1034 microfilm reels ; 35 mm. Notes Ireland, Civil Registration Indexes are available online, click here. Microfilm of original records in the General Registry, Custom House, Dublin. Births v. 12 1866 Family History Library BRITISH Film 101131 Currently newfamilysearch contains no patron submitted items The IGI is now available on newfamilysearch but contains only extracted data with the submitted data yet to come, the two will be searchable separately When available the submitted data will be called the :- Community Contributed IGI All entries should of course be checked with the original for accuracy, extra detail etc All transcriptions have errors and omissions so its vital to go back to source Some may find the following webinar of interest on searching newfamilysearch <http://broadcast.lds.org/eLearning/fhd/Community/en/FamilySearch/Product_We binars/Robert_Kehrer_-_June_21_2012/Player.html> Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK)