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What are these numbers?

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As I go further back I am starting to find locations that are numbers not places..... puzzles me. An example is 1793 in 1686002, Lanarkshire.

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Which records are you looking at? Are they batch numbers on the Family search site?

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No they are actual records on some shared trees, most of the material on the trees have the actual locations but occasionally I get numbers like this instead. I do not think its a feature of some family tree system, my feeling was it might be more relating to older records and a geographical location code.... but I am puzzled.

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put a link on to the tree might be easier for use to tell you what they are then ?
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I think this may be better in Misc. section. I will move it over.
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peterd wrote:put a link on to the tree might be easier for use to tell you what they are then ?


Cannot see how to do that - my tree is on the web version of Ancestry.

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I have also come across these numbers in my research on Ancestry. A word of caution, double check all the facts thoroughly as there is one researcher using these numbers, adding records and data that is incorrect or misleading.

I know to my cost, and it is taking ages to put things right :(
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Thanks for those cautionary words David.
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