UK England and Wales - 1871 Census for all Counties

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Main Project Page: http://is.gd/AVJ0Xc	Updates: http://is.gd/LveQDZ
Additional Helps: http://is.gd/eKSVB1	Project Presentations

Indexing the UK 1871 Census	Adjusting Highlights
Video - Introduction to the 1871 UK Census	Video - Tips for the 1871 UK Census

Project Completion
Lancashire Yorkshire Durham Part B: 47%
Lancashire Yorkshire Durham Part D: 99%
Lancashire Yorkshire Durham Part F: 44%

Updates to General Indexing Guidelines: http://is.gd/9JrBV6


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Project Helps, Updates and Additional Helps Questions and Answers:

• Example Page - Is not indexed - https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/images/5/59/Example_Page_Not_Indexed.pdf
• Locality Clarification - Cities go in the City Field.  All other localities higher than a city (county, state, country, for example) go in the County Field.
• Summary Page  - Page marked No Extractable Data - https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/images/c/c0/UK_Summary_Page.pdf
• London - Enter London in the city field, not in the county field. If London and an area within London (e.g. London Bayswater) is recorded, enter London Bayswater in the city field with a space between the two.
• County Names - Dorsetshire, Rutlandshire and Devonshire should be used as county names.
• City or Town - If there is more than one entry in this field, do not separate them with "or".
• Initials Instead of Names - If only initials are written for given and surnames, enter all of the initials in the given name field - https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/images/5/50/UK_Initials.pdf
• Bristol - Bristol goes in the city and not the county field.
• Occupation - If listed as Farmer's wife, Farmer's son, etc., index what is on the document. If more than one occupation is written, enter each separated by a space with no punctuation. If the document has and between the occupations, such as plumber and joiner, index it is as it is on the document. If there is an ampersand, replace it with the word and.
  • - If a descriptive word such as "formerly" is used, enter only the occupation.
• Entry Numbers - The numbers on the left hand side of the pages for Institution and Vessel forms are recorded for the entry number and the schedule number of the individual.  https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/images/f/f1/1871_Schedule_Number.pdf
• Surnames -  "The surname may have been written only once for the first member of a family. However, it needs to be repeated for each family member." Please review the field help.
• Places - When a country such as France or a state of the United States of America, is listed in the Where Born column - it is indexed in the Birth County field.
• Channel Islands - (Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, Herm, Jethou, Brecqhou and Lihou). Enter Island name in the Birth County Field and Parish (if recorded) in the Birth town or City Field
• Saint - The word Saint should not be spelled out in place names. Saint should be entered St  However, some batches may still contain place names in the lookup list with Saint spelled out.
• Arbitration - Record Matching Blank Lines - If one of the indexers inserted a blank line it should be moved to the bottom of the list using the down arrow.
• Schedule Number - If the census taker began recording a household at the bottom of the previous census page and continued at the top of the page you are indexing, you should be able to find the schedule number from the previous image. The Field Help has been changed to reflect this in some counties.
• Vessel/Institution Pages - Some may have only 20 records to record. The template includes 25 lines. The remaining unused lines are marked blank.
• Folio Number - Indexers- Record the folio number if it is on the document. If there is no folio number and you are working on a previously indexed batch, accept what the original indexer entered. If there is no folio number on the document or recorded in the header, skip the field. Arbitrators - If the document has no folio number but Key A has entered one, accept that number.
• Blank Lines - Entry Numbers should be sequential and are NOT recorded for blank lines.
• If the surname or schedule number is not on the first line - please get the information from the previous image.

Other observations made by indexers / arbitrators:
These are not official and questions / observations should be posted on the wiki if none of the above already cover these. Nothing here and you know of something? Let me know either by leaving a comment here on the post or leaving me a post in the Facebook Group and tagging my name like this @April Robertson