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By TheCount on Wed, 07/15/2020 - 19:54

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Hope you don't mind me asking a basic newbie question. I want to make sure I understand 7.6. I am looking at a register of baptisms on Ancestry where only every other page is numbered. I need to record 2 entries from this page spread - one on the left page and one on the right. I'm assuming that according to 7.6 that this is an example of a folio. Specifically, am I correct in assuming that I would cite an entry on the right side of the page as folio 31r and on the left side of the page as folio 30v? I have seen some examples in the book where there are no labels for recto/verso - when is that appropriate? 

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Submitted byEEon Thu, 07/16/2020 - 09:03

Hi, TheCount. Welcome to EE. Before I can make an absolute answer, I would need to know what the next number reads, when you turn a leaf. If the right-hand page before this was 30 and the right-hand page after this was 32, then: yes, you are dealing with folios. The creator of the register was numbering leaves of paper rather than sides of paper. Your entry of interest on the left-hand page would be folio 30 verso and the entry on the right-hand page would be 31 recto.

Submitted byTheCounton Thu, 07/16/2020 - 10:37
The next number was 32. Thank you for your answer. Still curious though about examples I have seen in the book where the folio number is present but the terms recto/verso is not used. In what situations is that appropriate?

Submitted byTheCounton Thu, 07/16/2020 - 15:49
I have an additional question too if you don't mind. I just came across some burial registers in which the folio or page number is handwritten in the upper left corner and then a stamped number was placed in the upper right which matches the number on the left . The entries span across both facing pages. Is this still considered a folio? If not how should I describe this? To complicate matters, in one of the volumes, not only is the first page missing, but somewhere around page 12, the number on the left no longer matches the stamped number on the right. For example the page on the left is 12 and the stamped number on the right is 11...