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What are these numbers?
Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 10:34 pm
by rogerneilson
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.
Roger
Re: What are these numbers?
Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 10:55 pm
by Maths girl
Roger
Which records are you looking at? Are they batch numbers on the Family search site?
Maths girl
Re: What are these numbers?
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 9:19 am
by rogerneilson
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.
Roger
Re: What are these numbers?
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 9:54 am
by peterd
put a link on to the tree might be easier for use to tell you what they are then ?
Re: What are these numbers?
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 3:28 pm
by grangers14
I think this may be better in Misc. section. I will move it over.
Jo
Re: What are these numbers?
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 1:45 pm
by rogerneilson
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.
Roger
Re: What are these numbers?
Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 10:00 am
by davidh1959
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
Re: What are these numbers?
Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 11:00 am
by rogerneilson
Thanks for those cautionary words David.