US Ohio County Naturalization Index 1818-1954 Project

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Main Project Home Page: http://sn.im/24mswas
Updates Page: http://sn.im/24msw2o
Additional Helps: http://sn.im/24mswp4
Project Presentations:
- http://sn.im/24msvq2

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