{"id":3684,"date":"2016-12-01T16:07:41","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T16:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3684"},"modified":"2017-05-06T18:53:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T18:53:41","slug":"five-out-of-ten-items-correct-on-johanns-1838-baptismal-entry-in-ancestry-coms-transcription","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3684","title":{"rendered":"Five Out of Ten Items Correct on Johann&#8217;s 1838 Baptismal Entry in Ancestry.com&#8217;s Transcription"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;record&#8221;\u00a0for\u00a0 Johann Friederich Janssen in\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com<\/em>\u2018s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/click-865524-10470501?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ancestry.com%2Fsearch%2Fdb.aspx%3Fdbid%3D61229\">Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1519-1969<\/a>\u201d makes him the poster child for reviewing the original record before doing anything with a transcription someone has made of a record.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ancestry.com<\/em> has the following things wrong in Johann&#8217;s entry:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>His date of birth<\/li>\n<li>His date of baptism<\/li>\n<li>His place of baptism<\/li>\n<li>His mother&#8217;s name<\/li>\n<li>The city or district of the record<\/li>\n<li>The Author<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/johann-ufkes-baptism.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3685\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/johann-ufkes-baptism-1024x517.jpg\" alt=\"johann-ufkes-baptism\" width=\"750\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/johann-ufkes-baptism-1024x517.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/johann-ufkes-baptism-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/johann-ufkes-baptism-768x388.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/johann-ufkes-baptism.jpg 1613w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The records that have been digitized (at least for this village, but for many of the villages in Ostfriesland, Germany, where Johann was from) are actually duplicates of the original church records. The year of Johann&#8217;s birth is not given in the record. This is typical for church records of this era. However, maneuvering earlier in the records usually provides the user with the year of the record. The illustration in this post with &#8220;image 157&#8221; in the center illustrates how this was done for Johann&#8217;s entry.<\/p>\n<p>Johann&#8217;s entry was on image 159 of 647 for this set of images. Image 157 had the &#8220;cover page&#8221; for the year of entries in which Johann&#8217;s entry was included.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ufkes-year1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3687\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ufkes-year1-1024x597.jpg\" alt=\"ufkes-year1\" width=\"750\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ufkes-year1-1024x597.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ufkes-year1-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ufkes-year1-768x447.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ufkes-year1.jpg 1193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ufkes-year2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3688 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ufkes-year2-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"ufkes-year2\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ufkes-year2-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ufkes-year2-768x401.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ufkes-year2.jpg 787w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Viewing that image in more detail indicated that the entry for Johann was actually from a set of entries in 1838, not 1837 as indicated in the\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com<\/em> transcription \u00a0(Readers may note that Holtrop is styled as Holtdorf in this image. That&#8217;s an earlier version of this village&#8217;s name and not a separate location).<\/p>\n<p>The name of Johann&#8217;s mother was not Trientje Eilts Janssen. A reading of the entry for Johann indicated that the parents were named as Hinrich Janssen and Trientje Eilts Post.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/johann-ufkes-actual-record.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3686\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/johann-ufkes-actual-record-1024x540.jpg\" alt=\"johann-ufkes-actual-record\" width=\"750\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/johann-ufkes-actual-record-1024x540.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/johann-ufkes-actual-record-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/johann-ufkes-actual-record-768x405.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/johann-ufkes-actual-record.jpg 1327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maneuvering earlier in the images in this set of records confirmed the location and the dates of records that were included in those records. This confirmed that the village was actually Holtrop. That&#8217;s the location that should have been used instead of Holtgaste u Holtrop. The reason Holtgaste u Holtrop was used is the same as <a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3672\">noted in an earlier post on these records<\/a>&#8211;the records of more than one village were included on the microfilm from which this set of digital images was created. The author should have been the church at Holtrop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ufkes-holtrop-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3689\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ufkes-holtrop-cover.jpg\" alt=\"ufkes-holtrop-cover\" width=\"505\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ufkes-holtrop-cover.jpg 505w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ufkes-holtrop-cover-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;index record&#8221; created for these records by\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com<\/em> should not be used for automatic import into a user&#8217;s database.<\/p>\n<p>Read the actual record. Use the &#8220;index record&#8221; as a guide for interpretation if necessary, but do not blindlessly use it without analyzing it yourself. The database\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/click-865524-10470501?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ancestry.com%2Fsearch%2Fdb.aspx%3Fdbid%3D61229\">Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1519-1969<\/a>\u201d greatly facilitates access to\u00a0these records for those who have German ancestors during the time period the records covers, but the records must be used with care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;record&#8221;\u00a0for\u00a0 Johann Friederich Janssen in\u00a0Ancestry.com\u2018s \u201cGermany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1519-1969\u201d makes him the poster child for reviewing the original record before doing anything with a transcription someone has made of a record. Ancestry.com has the following things wrong in Johann&#8217;s entry: His date of birth His date of baptism His place of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[284],"class_list":["post-3684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ancestry-com-german-parish-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}