January 21, 2012

California Registers

California Registers
Information has been added to address the situation of residences that are written like this 1626 - 2nd St (omit the hyphen)
Also slide 13 under Additional Helps has been redone to hopefully cover all situations of documents that are photographed on two separate images.

California Voting Register
Another example of where to select the Residence information to index has been added to the wiki.

 California Voting Registers
If there is both a cancellation date and a registration date we are to index the registration date.

UK 1871 Census

Mismatch batches in Uk 1871 Census
Could we get your help in two ways, please?
1- Make sure it is not the example batch they are reporting
2-If at all possible get the name of the individual project.

New Indexing Posts

 Dear Indexers:
There has been a problem that has now been resolved with the ability to  post project information, other indexing information and updates in the Stake Indexing Blog.  The problem has now been fixed. New posts and information can now be posted as they becomes available. Thank you for your patience.

Ohio Tax Records 1800-1850

 US, Ohio—Tax Records, 1800–1850
There are current batches that are indexes- these are to be marked as NED.  An example is being added to the project wiki page.

November 22, 2011

Canada Ontario Marriages

Batches with both marriage licenses and marriage certificates - Index only marriage certificates. If you have a marriage license in your batch mark it No Extractable Data.

November 15, 2011

California Voting Registers

 California Voting Registers (*)
There are several updates today with some examples-these include documents with range of years listed at the top- and clarifications on the residence field.
  California Voting Registers
 Some batches have two pages, one on top of the other.  One page is upside down in relation to the other page.  Index the correctly oriented page and then rotate the second page for indexing.  While the order of indexing is not critical, for consistency it would be helpful to index the correctly oriented page first and then rotate and index the second. 

For arbitrators- if you get a batch where both pages were indexed by both indexers, no matter in what order,  please do not send them back to be re-indexed.  If you get a batch where one indexer did it one way and one the other, please record match and move the records rather than sending it back for re-indexing.

November 10, 2011

UK 1871 Census Mismatched Batches

  1871 UK Census Mismatched Batches When you are trying to report a mismatched batch, please if at all possible get a share batch number and hold the batch for at least 24 hours to make sure that it is.  We are having to check out everyone of these (over 5000) and about 2/3 of them are actually just the example document rather than a mismatch.  It is very time consuming.  There is a example on the wiki about what a mismatch would look like.

November 08, 2011

California Voting Registers

California Votings Registers 
Images that are cancellations/transfers are indexed.

 California Votings Registers
1- fractions such as 1/2 are to be keyed
2-Page numbers can at times be found by going to the previous or next page.

California Voting Registers
Update-Images where the full registration year is not visible enter what you can see.  The field will not accept an * or ? so put what is visible.

California Voting Registers
Some documents only have a date of entry, no registration date.  Please index the date of entry in the registration date fields.

US Michigan Port Manifests

 US, Michigan-Port of Detroit Manifests 
If Stateless or Unknown is recorded in the Nationality field, please tab past the field.  Do not enter those terms.

 US, Michigan-Port of Detroit Manifests
Cards that include names of Catholic Sisters:  Key their given birth name unless it is not given.  If not included key the name they took when made a nun

November 04, 2011

Marriage Projects

   Marriage Projects 
Many index type documents have the bride, groom, marriage date and a page number listed for each couple - there has been a question whether to index this page number-here is the answer:
No, do not index the page number that is by each couple when indexing this kind of page.  These are indexes and we only want the page number if there is one at the top (or other location) indicating the number of that one page.