Ancestry have made a complete shambles of the West yorkshire registers. EG. If you browse for records of Kippax St Mary, the records you get are actually Kirk Deighton. Castleford St Johns is listed as having burials 1888-1904, the church never had any burial registers and didn't open until 1905, the records listed under this church are actually Castleford All Saints. Registers listed as Wakefield Christchurch pre 1813 are actually a mixture of early Castleford registers and Pontefract St Giles. So your duplicate baptisms could be the same images listed as 2 different churches they don't seem to have a clue what they are doing. Sharon Buchanan vicechair@pontefractfhs.org.uk www.pontefractfhs.org.uk --- On Wed, 6/7/11, gordon dyson <gordon.dyson@gmail.com> wrote: From: gordon dyson <gordon.dyson@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [WRY] Double Christening Entries To: west-riding@rootsweb.com Date: Wednesday, 6 July, 2011, 20:15 I have just one Baptism at Sowerby St.Peter's in the 1720s/30s, period. Perhaps if you would like to check this, it may tell you if the Parish Register Ancestry gave,  i.e. - Sowerby or Royston ?? Sowerby St. Peter's Thomas COOPER, bapt. 25 Jan 1733, son of Robert. Regards, Gordon. On 6 July 2011 04:47,  <lists@post.com> wrote: > In the Parish Registers recently appearing on Ancestry, it seems as though there are literally dozens of Christening entries throughout the 1720s and 1730s which are exactly duplicated under both St. Peter's, Sowerby and St. John's, Royston. Can anyone suggest what, if anything, these two separate churches in two distinct Parishes could possibly have had to do with each other's records, and which of them would have been the actual and correct place of the events? > > Some useful websites - > FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ > FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ > FREEREG - http://www.freereg.org.uk/ > > Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WEST-RIDING-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > Some useful websites - FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ FREEREG - http://www.freereg.org.uk/ Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WEST-RIDING-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I'm not sure it's Ancestry's fault. I checked out the example Gordon Dyson gives below, and the entry is indexed twice, once under St Peter's Sowerby and once under St John's Royston. So you can find the real information - even the indexation of the Royston one says Sowerby. BUT the Sowerby set of images is 5 pages long, and is all from Sowerby. The Royston set is 10 pages long, and changes to Sowerby at page 7. So someone has provided a set which is already muddled. To make things more diffcult to understand, the WYAS labelling at the foot of the image disappears at page 7, so I can't tell what the labelling is for the Sowerby pages. Two things are clear to me: we should ask Wakefield what they think has happened. And we should always use the images not the record. Maggie -----Original Message----- From: Sharon Buchanan <pontefhs@btinternet.com> To: west-riding@rootsweb.com Sent: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 16:17 Subject: Re: [WRY] Double Christening Entries Ancestry have made a complete shambles of the West yorkshire registers. EG. If you browse for records of Kippax St Mary, the records you get are actually Kirk Deighton. Castleford St Johns is listed as having burials 1888-1904, the church never had any burial registers and didn't open until 1905, the records listed under this church are actually Castleford All Saints. Registers listed as Wakefield Christchurch pre 1813 are actually a mixture of early Castleford registers and Pontefract St Giles. So your duplicate baptisms could be the same images listed as 2 different churches they don't seem to have a clue what they are doing. Sharon Buchanan vicechair@pontefractfhs.org.uk www.pontefractfhs.org.uk --- On Wed, 6/7/11, gordon dyson <gordon.dyson@gmail.com> wrote: From: gordon dyson <gordon.dyson@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [WRY] Double Christening Entries To: west-riding@rootsweb.com Date: Wednesday, 6 July, 2011, 20:15 I have just one Baptism at Sowerby St.Peter's in the 1720s/30s, period. Perhaps if you would like to check this, it may tell you if the Parish Register Ancestry gave, i.e. - Sowerby or Royston ?? Sowerby St. Peter's Thomas COOPER, bapt. 25 Jan 1733, son of Robert. Regards, Gordon. On 6 July 2011 04:47, <lists@post.com> wrote: > In the Parish Registers recently appearing on Ancestry, it seems as though there are literally dozens of Christening entries throughout the 1720s and 1730s which are exactly duplicated under both St. Peter's, Sowerby and St. John's, Royston. Can anyone suggest what, if anything, these two separate churches in two distinct Parishes could possibly have had to do with each other's records, and which of them would have been the actual and correct place of the events? > > Some useful websites - > FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ > FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ > FREEREG - http://www.freereg.org.uk/ > > Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WEST-RIDING-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > Some useful websites - FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ FREEREG - http://www.freereg.org.uk/ Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WEST-RIDING-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Some useful websites - FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ FREEREG - http://www.freereg.org.uk/ Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WEST-RIDING-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message