June 24, 2013

Canada New Brunswick Provincial Marriages

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

June 19, 2013

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.

June 14, 2013

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.

May 31, 2013

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.

May 27, 2013

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.

May 22, 2013

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.

May 14, 2013

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.

May 13, 2013

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.