The explanation most probably derives from the LDS policy when they microfilm, nowadays digitise a document.Alan SHARP wrote:......snipped........ The first page was gibberish to me.
The assistants could not help me, but I was so fascinated that I took a copy. I have noted at the top of the page I copied Cathcart 3156 - 102052 and also 102055 3465. So long ago I'm not sure of the meaning of these numbers.
The page had some 30 lines of what appear to be a scrawled short hand, then some numbers adding up to 288 with possibly some division as well and signed Alexander Baird. All faithfully recorded by the camera.
They don't make any selection of what to film/digitise, - they just film/digitise every page of a resource, regardless of how inapplicable a page might look.
I think this page is the minister's or session clerk's workings of the statistics relating to entries in the pages that follow.
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