I agree with Karen's suggestion that the records probably need to be combined and that we need to be careful when combining records.   Search for the child found in the IGI on New FamilySearch. See if you can then combine the parents when the other record you found.   I would also do a search on NFS with just the parents' names -- nothing else. It is possible that other children's birth information was extracted as well. These records can then be combined too.   Mary Scott ________________________________ From: Karen Tippets <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 7:12 AM Subject: Re: [LDS-WC] figuring our sources for extracted records in nFS Sometimes children's births & parents' sealings are not shown as links in NFS because there are records that still need to be combined within the system.  It would have been submitted to the system in two categories to get parents sealed & child sealed to parents, so there may be some combining work to be done on the part of patrons. People do need to be careful though with combining records: two people in the same place with the same name do not necessarily mean they are the same person.  I've seen folks combined that were born sixty or seventy years apart, just because their names were similar and in the same place. Karen On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Dan Taysom <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you Mary & Cindy, > > My initial thought when I saw the batch number in the source info was that > it was for a birth/christening record, but I (apparently) erroneously set > that assumption aside because in nFS there is just the man & the woman with > a relationship of spouse.  There is NO child linked to them in nSF, nor > parents linked to the couple, nor marriage info, just the relationship of > spouse. > > After receiving your suggestions I went into the IGI and tried searching by > one of their names & the batch number & up popped an extracted birth record > complete with child.  Curious. > > Well immediate problem solved even if there are lingering questions about > why the child wasn't linked to them in nFS since that was the basis for the > extraction record. > > thanks, > > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Mary S. Scott (Michigan) < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > The Batch number beginning with the letter "C" means the extraction is > > from a birth and/or christening record. I have seen many christening > > dates with the batch numbers begin with "C" or "A". Other letters and > > series of numbers mean different things. > > > > Here is a link to a document which explains the various batch numbers: > > https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/IGI_Batch_Number_Descriptions > > > > The document is entitled 'IGI Batch Number Definitions' (pretty straight > > forward I guess -- :>) > > > > An individual family file submission by a patron used to have a batch > > number attached to them as well. This was from the days when we sent the > > various forms to Salt Lake for clearance. There was a way to figure out > the > > day and year that the batch was processed just by looking at the batch > > number. (For instance, some of my submissions were 7920812. I was told > that > > 79 would refer to the year; 208 refers to the day of the year and > > 12 indicates that it was the 12th batch on that particular day.) > > > > Anyway the reason that there is no marriage date or place for the couple > > in question is that it was from a birth record for their child. Always > look > > at the child's information just in case you receive more explanation on a > > specific source. > > > > Also send an email to the staff at the family history library and copy > > down the source information. Ask them how to find out what source to > > examine to see that birth/christening record. > > > > > > Mary Scott > > > > Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to > > [email protected] > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > -- > Dan Taysom > [email protected] > > Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to > [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Finding ancestors is like eating potato chips--you can't stop with just one! Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to [email protected] ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message