US, Maine--Faylene Hutton Cemetery Collection 1780-1990

C
Operations pulled all the batches, and we have to restart the project because thfe setup instructions about the project were incomplete.. Had to pull out 8000 batches total.

Louisianna Parish Marriages

[10:52:00 AM]  Louisianna Parish Marriages -  (more than one principal)  they are turning on the option to add a record so that both principals can be indexed.
(If you download a  batch where there are dual principals and they cannot add a record, please  return the batch and download another.  The project is saturated right now, so it may be a few minutes.)

US Texas Naturalization batches

ARBITRATORS;  A problem with the US Texas Naturalization Records has been reported.  The information in Key A is being removed.  If you experiance this type of issue, could you please  hold the batches for now until further notice. Hopefully it will be fixed before they expire on your computer. Updates will be posted when that takes place.

Vermont Passenger lists

Vermont- we need to be really cautious on this project, Some new updates are being created for it.  What may appear to be the passenger's ages are actually the weight of their baggage, again.  Becareful!!

GEORGIA DEATH BATCHES

Georgia Deaths-
There was a program issue that caused the parents names to be in the hidden fields option. Many of these batches were returned for re-indexing because there was no place to enter the names. ARBITRATORS:   PLEASE DO NOT return these for re-indexing, just add the parent's names as YOU arbitrate. If you have a question please contact  your Stake Indexing Director.

US Tesas, Laredo - Arrival Manifests 1903-1955

The batches downloaded for this project may contain multiple names and there are no options to add more records to accomodate the extra names. WE ARE ONLY TO INDEX THE PRINCIPAL NAME. PLEASE DO NOT INDEX OTHER NAMES ON THE CARD.

Chromebook

Indexers and Arbitrators: As informaiton, Chromebook is considered a mobile device and is not supported at this time.

HEADS UP -- Philippines, Pangasinan—Civil Registration, 1946–1965

 HEADS UP
Philippines, Pangasinan—Civil Registration, 1946–1965
Affidavit for Delayed Registration of Birth
These documents are to be indexed.  A sample has been added to the Project Instructions.  We need to get the word out.  Many indexers and arbitrators are marking them as No Extractable Data.

Jamaica Marriages and Deaths

Jamaica Marriages and Deaths
(*) Heads up- Jamaica Marriages and Deaths- it is being pulled to add a new field- a certificate number field. I will post when they have the changes made.

Essex Parish Registers

Essex Parish Registers- the field helps for the bride and grooms names have been changed to state NOT to index street names. We will be changing the how to on the wiki and project updates.

Muster Rolls

Muster Rolls- if the soldiers are stationed on a ship type the complete ship name. As an example Essex and USS Essex are two very different places. An update will be added to the update page as soon as the examples can be found and posted..

Jamaica Deaths and Marriages

[7/23/2013 10:51:41 AM]
 Jamaica Deaths and Marriages- there is an update on the wiki saying to mark the death field as blank if it is unreadable rather than using the registration date.  On part C the rules have changed and we would use the registration date if the death date is unreadable.  This could cause some interesting arbitration situations as what is unreadable to one, may not be to another.  We will do the best we can.  The update is going to be removed.

Philippines Batches

Philippines- when a register is cut into two segments, with the parent's name in one batch and the child's in another- index the information in the batch that you have-it will be combined later.

Indexing and MAC computers

Indexers  some important information: We do not support Mac OS 10.5 or previous. Said differently, we require Mac OS 10.6 or later to use indexing.

Illinois Adams co death project

On the Illinois Adams co death project- the engineers are working on fixing the year/month fields to not go to quality check.   There is some system glitch.

Canada New Brunswick Provincial Marriages

Canada New Brunswick Provincial Marriages-if there is no certificate number, index the registration number.

Texas Marriages project and batches

 On the Texas Marriages: Indexers, if you encounter the terms FMC or FWC adjacent to the names please index the terms into the "Title and Terms" field. The form does not have a race field. The terms relate to "Free Man of Color" or Free Women of Color" so we are  to index FMC and FWC in Title and Terms.

Indiana and Iowa Marriages projects

New  Instructions: 6-14-13, On the Indiana Wayne Co. Marriages and the US, Iowa Marriages we are to treat each image in these two projects as stand alone images. We are not to combine the images on these projects.

Georgia Death project

There has been some confusion on the Georgia Death project in the Place of Birth field- Follow the Field Helps. Type exactly what is on the document, including Co, Conty, County, etc.  An update is being added to the wiki.

Iowa Marriages Batches

There are different, individual documents, that relate to the same marriage. These documents may be filed on separate, successive images. In these cases each image is to be indexed as a separate record even though they may relate to the same marriage.

US Iowa 1905 Census batch

  US Iowa 1905 Census batch, If you have a batch that has an image that has 2 records and you were unable to add a record to each image, that has now been fixed and they can add additional records on that project.

Canada 1911 Census

ARBITRATORS: In arbitrating Canada 1911 Census - If  both indexers have translated relationships into English from French; please do not send them back for re-indexing. Please change them back to French, but do not return the batches.

Canada Census Batches

Indexers and Arbitrators: If you have questions about French in the Canadian Census. Please type what you see.  I see that french relationship terms have been added to drop down list so these are to be indexed in french.  
<<< Marital Status:
(C ) célibataire = (S ) single
(M ) marié = (M ) married
(D ) divorcé = (D ) divorced
(V ) veuf = (W ) widowed

Iowa State Census 1905

Indexers and Arbitrators: FYI regarding Iowa State Census 1905 when it says "Native Born":
Type what you see- Native Born is being added to the look up list.

Australia Queensland Cemeteries

Indexers and Arbitrators:  Australia Queensland- If you download  a batch fo multiple records please follow the examples and instructions included in the Project Instrutions and Wike. There is instruction on how to do documents of that type.  They are to be done column, by column.  It is visually shown in the how to's.

Mississippi Educable Children

  Mississippi Educable Children has been re-launched.  PLEASE carefully read the field helps and Project Instructions.  Please view the links and the prower point to see the examples. The project is very different!

Passenger Lists projects

New Zealand–Passenger Lists, 1871-1915, Project Updates

From FamilySearch Wiki

For all Passenger Lists including the Community projects -  no signatures are to be indexed

UK WW 1 Project

Indexers and Arbitrators:
There have been some updates to the Project Instructions for his project. Please review the new information before starting any new batches. This URL has some great information and instrucitons to help you with your efforts.
View the changes to UK WWI instructions here

New Zealand Passenger Lists

Question:
Are the signatures at the bottom of the New Zealand Passenger list, to be indexed ?
Answer:  No signatures are to be indexed.

New York passenger passenger lists

New York passenger lists in general  there is a new line in the wiki updates that says, "It is not necessary to index any signatures on the documents."  If an inspectors name is stamped on the form with his signature under it do not index the name?

Maine Delayed Return Project

Indexers and Arbitrators:
In case you have a question about "Removals" in the Maine Delayed Returns... here is the update....
Yes, the removals are indexed as deaths.

US Community Passenger List Projects.

Indexers and Arbitrators:
An important update to the US Community Passenger List Projects.  We have just added an update to the Passenger lists for the wiki- if  US Cit is stamped or written on a document index U S omit the Cit.

New Zealand Passenger Lists

Indexers and Arbitrators:
In the New Zealand Passenger List batches the question was ask:
Question: Should the name of a guardian be indexed
Answer: No

Maine Delayed Returns Project

 Indexers and Arbitrators:
There has been some problems between the indexers and arbitrators concerning  the Maine Delayed Returns.  If the Intention Date is the only date listed on the record then please index that date. Arbitrators are not to make corrections to the indexed date if that is the only date listed.

UK—WWI Service Records, 1914–1920

UK—WWI Service Records, 1914–1920
This project has just been made available.  This is a very tricky project, PLEASE READ and carefully review the project Instructions. Especially see the Project Updates PDF file on the regiment titles.

Ohio Birth Project

Indexer and Arbitrators:
There have heen some very large batches downloaded that contain approximately 500 records or names to index. If you happen to get one of these batches please do not index them but return them for "Image  Review".  They then will be broken down into smaller batches and returned to the project list.

US, Mississippi—Military Grave Registrations, 1936–1951

US, Mississippi—Military Grave Registrations, 1936–1951,
New project release - it is a bit complex.  There are a multitude of different document types.  The principle is - if there is a name of a person index it and glean any additional information available.  So, names and no other info- index them.  READ the Project Instructions for information on what and what not to index.

Passenger List Projects and Batches

Indexers and Arbitrators:
 During the earlier releases of the Passenger List batches the Field Helps and Project Instructions said to only index the passengers and not the crews, ship owners, etc...  In the later batches the Project Instructions were changed and we were asked  to index every name on the image except the names of companies and the relatives the passengers were staying with. PLEASE be careful and read the Project Instructions for the correct instructions for the batch you have downloaded. On the batches that only ask for the passengers please only index the passengers. On the batches that want all the names indexed please index every name on the image. Thank you.

Certificate numbers on projects

 Indexers and Arbitrators we have received some new indexing informaiton; Certificate numbers on projects-- when they are listed on the document in this fashion 1-2345, index all numbers without the hyphen.  This will be the standard for every project.

Udates to the FSI program

Indexers and Arbitrators:
There has been an update release to the Family Search Indexing program. Some indexers have experienced a slow down when working on batches for the last few days. Please be aware that the engineers are working on the problem and should have it fixed by Monday. Thank you all for your patience.

Spanish Projects

Indexers and Arbitrators:
When doing spanish indexing please be aware that we do not include the 'da' or the 'dos' or the 'de' but we would index the initual in front of the Family/Surname.

Miscellaneous informaiton

 A few questions, a few answers:
1. Ohio Births- indexes currently being downloaded which list names, dates and parents are to be indexed.

2. Maine WWI Draft Registrations: no birth place, but card says Native or Natural Born in Nationality field- do not index any information from the nationality field.  If there is no birthplace listed- don't index one.
Relation/Relationship field- if wife (or whatever) is written in the relative field- tab past both the relative and relationship field.  If wife (or whatever) is recorded in the relationship field, even if no names are recorded in the relative field index wife in the relationship field.

3. Residence- you may run across locales such an Unity Plantation.  Type what is on the document.

Australia Queensland-

Australia Queensland- the project has been taken down until these LDS documents have been removed.

Australia Queensland

Australia Queensland- Family Group sheets (or any other document) that has LDS information, such as temple dates, please mark as No Extractable Data and submit.  There will not be an update to the wiki about this, so you are the front line on this one.

Ohio Birth Project

Indexers: Some information about the Ohio Birth Project.
More batches are being downloaded from the Ohio Birth Project that are way too large.  Please mark them as NED and submit, please.

US Maine Delayed Returns

Maine delayed events: 
 If there is additional information on the back of the card that relates to the principal, combine with the information  on the front and continue to mark the back as NED.
This will be added to the updates page.

New York Passenger Lists

New York Passenger Lists:
Some batches contain one document that has information for 1 person.  There is only one image per batch.  The batches have a default of 10 records.  Please enter the info for the persons listed and mark blank the remaining lines.

Census Records

Indexers and Arbitrators:
On some census records the enumerators have entered a symbol that looks like an backward "c" and sometimes along with a small looking ditto mark. ( " ).  You will notice that it is written just before the surname.  We have been advised that the entries should be indexed and arbitrated as "Mc" such as in Irish names McXxxxxx.

New Projects Available

AS INFORMATION

Indexers, the following projects have been launched
and are now ready for indexing.

Brazil, Rio de Janeiro—Immigration Cards 1900-1965 [Part 3BB]

US, Indiana, Vermillion County—Marriages 1811-1975

US, Maine—Delayed Births, Deaths, & Marriages 1670-1891

Germany, Mecklenburg-Schwerin—1867 Census [Part C]

Jamaican Death Records

Indexers the ability to add more records in the Jamaican Death Records has been corrected.  Please do not return batches for this reason. Thank you.

Jamaican Death Records

Indexers, it has been reported that  some of the Jamaican Death records have more then 1 death listed per page, and no way to add any extra lines. The issue has been reported.  Pleaser return the batches for "Image Review"

Correction to previous post

PASSENGER LIST PROJECTS
If an Airline name is in the Ship's field mark it Blank
If there is no Ship name mark the field Blank

Passenger List Projects

Indexers, Some project updates and decisions that will help you with your indexing and arbitration.
1. When multiple ship names with passengers are included on one image please index only the first ship's name.
2. Airline names should not be entered in place of the Ship's name on the form (Corrected Information)
3. All names on the new Passenger List projects  will be indexed, passengers, crew, owners, etc...
4  Please see the message in the "My Message" Box in the indexing My Work page.

California Death Index

Question:
Blank lines in between names in California Death Index.  How do we index those... at the end of batch leave blank?  Looked in PI and PU.  Havn't had this problem come up before.

Answer:
Index all blank lines at the end of the batch

Passenger List Projects

 Passenger List Projects 
All passenger list projects should now include crew lists, and everyone on the document.  The Project Instructions are correct, but a field help slipped through saying not to index crew, etc.  It will be fixed.

NOTE: Some of the older ones do not, so read the PI very carefully.

California Death Records

California Death Records
It has been reported that the Age Field is causing trouble  when the batch is complete and is trying to be submited back to the server.  The problem has been corrected by the engineers but those of you who have downloaded a batch before the fix will still have problems submitting the batch.  The only way to submit these older batches is to click on the ACCEPT button for each record while in Quality Check and then submit. Sorry for the inconvience and effort. Thank you so much for your help.

Family Search Indexing Udate

  FSI Update 
As you all know that Family Search Indexing has been experiencing some major problems for the last few days. As part of the remedy, some collections have been removed from the download options box, to see if that helped fix the problem. As the problem is being corrected please  watch for any collections that appear to be missing to come back over the next few days.

New York 1865 Census

 New York 1865 State Census
 When a line has no information on it and is skipped, please follow the numbering on the actual sheet.  Example, Line 4 Mary Smith, Line 5 Blank, Line 6 John Smith.  The line numbers would be indexed as 4 and then 6.  5 would be skipped.  I think this may be confusing so if you have questions let me know.

California Death Project

 California Deaths
Ages over 100- as the age unit column tells us that the person is at least 100 we are to add the 1 in front of the numbers that were recorded on the document.  As you have probably seen, the column only allows two digits.  So, if A is in the age unit field and 05 in the age column, index as 105

Immigration and Natturalization Community Project

Three new passenger list projects are starting today as part of the Immigration and Naturalization Community Project. They include new instructions regarding which names to index. We are now indexing the names of crew as well as passengers.
The three projects with new instructions are:

• US (Community Project), Pennsylvania, Philadelphia—Passenger Lists, 1883–1945 [Part B]
• US (Community Project), Florida, Tampa—Passenger Lists, 1898–1945 [Part B]
• US (Community Project), Maryland—Passenger Lists, 1820–1891

California Death Project

We have received word from those overseeing the California Death project that all of the ZZ's in the given name field on the California Death Records Project are to be marked blank.

California Death Project

 California Deaths 
If the person is 100 and up the program will not allow an A to be put in the Age Unit field.  Just mark that field blank. 
Also in this project in the first column after the given name, the letter is the initial of the individual and should be indexed with the given name.

US, California—Death Index 1905-1939

Launched
US, California—Death Index 1905-1939 - This project can have over 400 records per image.  We are checking to see if it will slow people's computers to a crawl.
There is nothing that can be done as the images cannot be broken up.  We will hope for the best!

Indexers and Arbitrators, Ask a question has some real issues right now- the engineers are working on the problem, but havn't been given any real solutions. Not all subjects entered are affected, please watch your answers carefully. I will post another message when it is fixed.

Project Information

Indexers and Arbitrators, the following projects have be launched and are now available to work on.

 France—Protestant Church Records [Part 2B]
 US, Indiana, Switzerland County—Marriages 1811-197

"South Africa—Church of the Province of South Africa Baptism Registers, 1850–1914 [Part 2]

"South Africa—Church of the Province of South Africa Baptism Registers, 1850–1914 [Part 2]
The instructions state that the data entry area is set at one record per image. Please note that while there is only one image the records are set at 8 per image. You can add more than 8, but you are unable to set anything below 8.  Please enter the number of records that are on the image and Blank the rest.

US, Maine WW I Card Index of Soldiers by Town, 1917–1919

ARBITRATION INFORMATION:Maine project:
If there is more than one date for ENTERED SERVICE, priority in this order:
1. Date of Muster
2. Date Reported
3. Date of Enlistment