In my experience, the film listed for an indexed familysearch record, is indeed the film it came from.
The record does list the film that it came from.
The only way I can think of to explore the actual source, and the actual record, is to review the film! Shame they did away with their retrieval service :(
PF I am not querying the FILM the record came from, I am querying the source of what has been filmed.
If on the search screen you enter Woolton, born 1882 to 1882 and no name, you get a list of baptisms for children allegedly baptised in Woolton. Clicking on some of these names brings up a results form with christened in Woolton, Lancashire (no mention of Liverpool) and the names of both parents. The film number for each of the ones I tried is given as 2147929
The film number for the William Matthews record is 2147930
I am disappointed with the way the familysearch.org site seems to be heading; i.e. back how it used to be in the latter days of IGI.
It may not be him cannot be sure except he was born around 1881-2 and Fathers name was William Matthews, Mothers name was Mary so not hard to decipher I would have thought.
Thanks everybody for your interesting comments.
Hello, have just come across this thread, and having been born and brought up on the outskirts of Liverpool, I can vouch for the place Woolton as definitely being part of Liverpool, in fact it was, and probably still is, referred to as Woolton Village.
Lennon & McCarthy lived in the area and, as the Quarrymen, reputedly played their first 'gig' in the Church Hall of St. Peter's Church, Woolton, and a certain Eleanor Rigby's grave is allegedly to be found in this church's graveyard!
Perhaps this bit of info. might help to find the place of Baptism? I hope it helps.
That perhaps explains it. The school admission records I have seen usually only list the father and date (or just year) of birth of the child. The mother is occasionally listed if the father has died or the child was illegitimate. Its a bit naughty to list it as a birth record!!
Anne
Just read through this thread, though I can not comment on the baptism but I know both Arnot Street school which is in the district of Walton in Liverpool and a lot further away by several miles is Woolton so I don't know why both these records are linked, I have been to the church mentioned by Angela St Peter's and seen the grave of Eleanor Rigby while visiting the grave of another.
Not sure how Val came by the baptism but there was a St Peters in the City Centre and I have found later baptisms there for Mathews home address Walton
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