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Main Project Home Page: http://sn.im/24khya4
Main Passenger Lists Home Page: http://sn.im/24khxzkUpdates: http://sn.im/24khxl5Additional Helps: http://sn.im/24khxb0Project Presentations:- http://sn.im/24kxjxa
Updates to General Indexing Guidelines: http://is.gd/9JrBV6
Things You Should Remember:
- Index the names of passengers only. Do not index any other names, such as the names of the crew, ship owner, shipmaster, customs agent, surgeon, or individuals who shipped materials. If an image does not include the names of passengers, mark it as a No Extractable Data Image.
- "#FamilySearch #Indexing update: Passenger lists (particularly Louisiana) Different column heading- it states:” If native of United States insular possession or if native of United States give date and place of birth”.These are to be indexed as United States in the Country of Birth or Nationality field." https://plus.google.com/u/0/108092761844142144972/posts/g3FPjVDXKfc Note the word “If.” If a state or possession of the United States was listed, please index the field as United States for each entry. If another locality was listed, please index the locality, following the rules in the field help. Presentation on this http://sn.im/24kxjxa
- Affidavits - are not indexed
- No Ship Name / Date - Some partial manifests have no ship name or date, please go ahead and still index them. Waypointing will resolve this problem when researchers use the search engine.
- Some documents do not list gender but leave the field blank until the gender changes. If you can determine the intent was to “ditto” the gender then enter the gender from the field above.
- Gender can be taken from contextual information such as titles and terms such as Mr, Mrs and Miss.
- Additional helps Page Updated - Q. Should I fill in the gender for Mrs Smith if it is not recorded? A. Yes, if the gender isn't specifically recorded, contextual information such as titles and terms. In this case, the title "Mrs" indicates the gender is female.
- Supercargo - Index the Supercargo
To contact us Click
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Main Project Home Page: http://sn.im/24khya4
Main Passenger Lists Home Page: http://sn.im/24khxzkUpdates: http://sn.im/24khxl5Additional Helps: http://sn.im/24khxb0Project Presentations:- http://sn.im/24kxjxa
Updates to General Indexing Guidelines: http://is.gd/9JrBV6
Things You Should Remember:
- Index the names of passengers only. Do not index any other names, such as the names of the crew, ship owner, shipmaster, customs agent, surgeon, or individuals who shipped materials. If an image does not include the names of passengers, mark it as a No Extractable Data Image.
- "#FamilySearch #Indexing update: Passenger lists (particularly Louisiana) Different column heading- it states:” If native of United States insular possession or if native of United States give date and place of birth”.These are to be indexed as United States in the Country of Birth or Nationality field." https://plus.google.com/u/0/108092761844142144972/posts/g3FPjVDXKfc Note the word “If.” If a state or possession of the United States was listed, please index the field as United States for each entry. If another locality was listed, please index the locality, following the rules in the field help. Presentation on this http://sn.im/24kxjxa
- Affidavits - are not indexed
- No Ship Name / Date - Some partial manifests have no ship name or date, please go ahead and still index them. Waypointing will resolve this problem when researchers use the search engine.
- Some documents do not list gender but leave the field blank until the gender changes. If you can determine the intent was to “ditto” the gender then enter the gender from the field above.
- Gender can be taken from contextual information such as titles and terms such as Mr, Mrs and Miss.
- Additional helps Page Updated - Q. Should I fill in the gender for Mrs Smith if it is not recorded? A. Yes, if the gender isn't specifically recorded, contextual information such as titles and terms. In this case, the title "Mrs" indicates the gender is female.
- Supercargo - Index the Supercargo
To contact us Click
HERE
Main Project Home Page: http://sn.im/24khya4
Main Passenger Lists Home Page: http://sn.im/24khxzkUpdates: http://sn.im/24khxl5Additional Helps: http://sn.im/24khxb0Project Presentations:- http://sn.im/24kxjxa
Updates to General Indexing Guidelines: http://is.gd/9JrBV6
Things You Should Remember:
- Index the names of passengers only. Do not index any other names, such as the names of the crew, ship owner, shipmaster, customs agent, surgeon, or individuals who shipped materials. If an image does not include the names of passengers, mark it as a No Extractable Data Image.
- "#FamilySearch #Indexing update: Passenger lists (particularly Louisiana) Different column heading- it states:” If native of United States insular possession or if native of United States give date and place of birth”.These are to be indexed as United States in the Country of Birth or Nationality field." https://plus.google.com/u/0/108092761844142144972/posts/g3FPjVDXKfc Note the word “If.” If a state or possession of the United States was listed, please index the field as United States for each entry. If another locality was listed, please index the locality, following the rules in the field help. Presentation on this http://sn.im/24kxjxa
- Affidavits - are not indexed
- No Ship Name / Date - Some partial manifests have no ship name or date, please go ahead and still index them. Waypointing will resolve this problem when researchers use the search engine.
- Some documents do not list gender but leave the field blank until the gender changes. If you can determine the intent was to “ditto” the gender then enter the gender from the field above.
- Gender can be taken from contextual information such as titles and terms such as Mr, Mrs and Miss.
- Additional helps Page Updated - Q. Should I fill in the gender for Mrs Smith if it is not recorded? A. Yes, if the gender isn't specifically recorded, contextual information such as titles and terms. In this case, the title "Mrs" indicates the gender is female.
- Supercargo - Index the Supercargo
To contact us Click
HERE
Main Project Home Page: http://sn.im/24mswasUpdates Page: http://sn.im/24msw2oAdditional Helps: http://sn.im/24mswp4Project Presentations:- http://sn.im/24msvq2
Updates to General Indexing Guidelines: http://is.gd/9JrBV6BASIC Indexing Guidelines (aka BIG): http://sn.im/24msx2u
Things You Should Remember:
- READ the presentation above
- Question: Some of the records just have "Ge" for country. Per instructions I entered it as "Ge" so as not to assume it is Germany. Is that correct? Answer: Yes it's answered in the presentation above. If you don't know what the letters stand for then type them as is.
- Question: In this same batch it looks to me as though one image is a duplicate of another image. I checked help for how to handle this, but there is no header tab for this batch. If I mark image as "duplicate image" on the table entry tab, it says "are you sure you want to continue, all data will be lost" Help! Answer: Instead of marking the image normal you would mark it Duplicate. Make sure that both images are exact photographic copies. If anything is different on either image you can't mark it duplicate. Marking it duplicate will not erase anything for other images just that image that you are marking duplicate.
- Question: There is an image of a naturalization card for state of Pennsylvania in among a batch of Ohio county naturalization cards. Do I index it as usual? How do I indicate the correct state? Answer from another indexer / arbitrator: I think what has happened in these is that the person was naturalized in Pennsylvania (or some other state) but then moved to Ohio. For some strange reason, a lot of these naturalizations were not recorded until years after they happened. I have indexed several of these (and arbitrated a few) and I just go with "type what you see." Unfortunately, there is no place to add the state. I think the project should have been set up so that, if the naturalization did not take place in Ohio, there was a place to write in the state, but it wasn't.
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Main Project Home Page: http://sn.im/24mt8oaUpdates Page: http://sn.im/24mt83pAdditional Helps: http://sn.im/24mt8xcProject Presentations:- none
Updates to General Indexing Guidelines: http://is.gd/9JrBV6BASIC Indexing Guidelines (aka BIG): http://sn.im/24msx2u
Things You Should Remember: - State - When a state is on the document but there is no state field for the project, do not enter the state in any other field.
- Field Helps: The certificate number often follows other numbers, separated by a space. It is usually the larger of the numbers. Index the certificate number only, not the preceding digits. If you need help determining the certificate number, it may help to look at the previous or next image. Example: 225 11039 Only index 11039
