UK Essex Parish Records 1538-1900 FamilySearch Indexing Project

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Main Project Page: http://is.gd/odxTni
Updates: http://is.gd/5CjPlf
Additional Helps: http://is.gd/2ORYPW


Project Presentations:
- Examples on Indexing UK Parish Registers - http://is.gd/Twlwf3
- How to Read Old English Records - http://is.gd/k4YVNx
- How to Index Single Image Multiple Record Batches - http://is.gd/5lJYWn
- Supplemental Examples - http://is.gd/z90hII

Project Completion:
Part A: 38%
Part 2: 0%

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



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OFFICIAL Project Helps, Updates and Additional Helps Questions and Answers:

• Do not index people without any name such as a Stranger, Old Man, Beggar.  The only exception to this rule would be if there were parents listed or a spouse.  
• This project is preset at 2 records to start.   Add in more records as you need them.  Do not account for blank lines on the documents.  We are not to keep blank lines at all in this project.
• Gender - In burials entries sepulta = female and sepultus = male to determine gender.
• Event Type - Received event to record as christening - http://is.gd/SbYbXQ or R and Rx recorded as event type http://is.gd/x8ktvE
• Christening Date - Use the baptized date, not the certified date - http://is.gd/063TFn
• Months - The months from September through December are often abbreviated with a number and then ber - September = 7ber, October = 8ber, November = 9ber, December = 10ber
• Image Cut Off - If the document is cut off on the top or bottom, index the visible records.
• Field Helps - There may be changes in the fields helps for different segments of this project. In the Groom's Condition field, for example, one segment may accept bachelor and another S (for single). Reading the field helps will help insure accurate indexing.
• Latin Terms - "abortivia" is a word that means aborted. It is not a name.
• Churchings - Mark documents entitled "Churchings" as no extractable data.
• Q. Can blank lines be added to equal the number of lines in the image? A. There is no need to add blank lines to match the number of lines in the image. The data entry area is preset to one or two records per image. If you encounter images with more names to record than the preset number, you will need to add additional entry lines to match the actual number of names to be indexed on your image.
• Names - If a surname is not recorded - do not assume a surname from another family member, for example "John son of David and Mary Smith". The field helps clearly say do not assume surname.
  - Some words are being confused as part of the name - http://is.gd/Phr5zc
  - recorded in Latin should not be changed
• Gender - Do not assume gender based on the given name. Index the gender only if it was specifically recorded or if it can be determined by the relationship, such as a son/daughter or husband/wife. - Gender can be found in unusual places – Example http://is.gd/vGTi2s
• Dates - The switch to the Gregorian calendar in 1752 - How this affects event dates http://is.gd/LC3uS1
  - Index the date as shown on the document
  - If more than one year is recorded, 1764/1765 for example, index the first year.
• Record Type - Baptisms are recorded as Christenings - When to use Record Type "Other" http://is.gd/knlJUu
  - Wills: Index principle and capture no other names. Mark other pages NED
  - Banns: When the date is indexed, record the last day the banns were announced
  - Confirmation: Do not index confirmation records - mark as no extractable data
• Latin Terms - - Key Latin words, numbers and definitions - Latin Genealogical Word List http://is.gd/zS0Tec
• Handwriting Help - Reading old handwriting - English 1500-1800 Tutorial http://is.gd/0sA1Q6
• Image - Part of one document is cut off - How to index the image http://is.gd/Jrlte5

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 http://www.facebook.com/groups/unofficialsharebatchfsi/ and tagging my name like this @April Robertson

• Burials: If image shows "Mary, Wife of John Bruce" do not index a surname for Mary. Another example: "John, son of James and Mary Hunt" do not index the surname for John.