January 28, 2013

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

January 26, 2013

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.

January 24, 2013

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.

January 19, 2013

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.

January 16, 2013

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

January 15, 2013

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.

January 10, 2013

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.

January 07, 2013

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