How does this Filing system work?

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https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99WS-HTJX?i=16&cc=2037955&cat=182732

In my research I frequently find tables that include:

Name:                Date:     Parish:   Registre:

(for this ex use left side page:)

Fiejhen Jaqcue  21 Nov      M         19.5

Name and date I understand. the parish is I assume St. Michaels what I don't get is the Registre.  How do I find the right Registre. 

 I have over 50 names with this type of organization so your help will be most appreciated and extensively used.

in Genealogy Help by Krys Feyen G2G6 Mach 1 (13.2k points)

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Hello Krys.

As a complement to George's answer.

The numbers represent " [Book no.] . [Sheet no.] ".

Examples:

The three records at the top of the page at the right hand side in the image in your question:

Folschett Marguerite 28 Sep (1650) M 19.4
Filtzdarff Eve 29 Sep (1650) M 19.4
Fieghen Jacques 25 Nov (1650) M 19.5

Link to the film with book no. 19 naissances/baptêmes:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99WM-M6N5?i=1&wc=STHC-YW5%3A1500891707%2C1500941762&cc=2037955

In image 9 of 240, at the left hand side of the image is the back of sheet no. 4 of the book and at the right hand side is the front of sheet no. 5 of the book.

The record for Marguerite (Margaretha) is the fourth record on the column at the right hand side of sheet no. 4 and the fifth record is the one indexed as "Eve" ("Eva" is the given name of the matrina (Godmother), the given name of the baby girl seems not to be listed) and at the top of the column at the right hand side of sheet no.5 is the rocord for Jacques whose father's given name reads Nicolai.

I hope this helps.

by Rubén Hernández G2G6 Pilot (831k points)
selected by Cheryl Hess

Nice work, Rubén! yes How in the world did you know that?!?

Very easy, Pip...

George teached me !!   laugh

(Most of the indexes for christian records work the same way, no matter the country they belong to. Some of them also has the record number on it)

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In the table the column is labeled “Registre et feuille” which translates as “register and sheet,” although “folio” might be a better translation. I would take “registre” to be a volume number and would expect it on the spine or title page of the volume. Each sheet or folio in the volume gets a number on the front only. For “feuille” the record could be on either the front of the sheet (recto) or back (verso).

I would expect the volumes of baptisms, for example, to be consecutively numbered, but that seems not to be the case. Perhaps other volumes of records, marriages, deaths, confirmations, and so on, were given register numbers in the sequence.
by George Fulton G2G6 Pilot (647k points)

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