US Pennsylvania Philadelphia Passenger Lists 1800-1882

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Main Project Home Page: http://sn.im/24khya4
Main Passenger Lists Home Page: http://sn.im/24khxzk
Updates: http://sn.im/24khxl5
Additional Helps: http://sn.im/24khxb0
Project Presentations:
- http://sn.im/24kxjxa

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

Things You Should Remember: 
- #FamilySearch Indexing: Country of Birth or Nationality for Community Projects:The change in this field makes it easier to index.  Type what you see taking the information first from the birth column or field on the document and then, if no information is recorded there, index exactly what is recorded in the nationality column or field.  You may see localities such as Philadelphia Pa, Panama Canal, etc.  Index them exactly as they are recorded.
- Name Changes - Examples
- 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.
- Sex  
     - 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

US Washington Seattle Passenger Lists 1890-1957

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Main Project Home Page: http://sn.im/24khya4
Main Passenger Lists Home Page: http://sn.im/24khxzk
Updates: http://sn.im/24khxl5
Additional Helps: http://sn.im/24khxb0
Project Presentations:
- http://sn.im/24kxjxa

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

Things You Should Remember: 
- #FamilySearch Indexing: Country of Birth or Nationality for Community Projects:The change in this field makes it easier to index.  Type what you see taking the information first from the birth column or field on the document and then, if no information is recorded there, index exactly what is recorded in the nationality column or field.  You may see localities such as Philadelphia Pa, Panama Canal, etc.  Index them exactly as they are recorded.
- Name Changes - Examples
- 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.
- Sex  
     - 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

Country of Birth Nationality Field Change for all US Passenger List Projects

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Okay if I missed any of the projects that this is included in let me know. This applies for all US Passenger lists projects.



- #FamilySearch Indexing: Country of Birth or Nationality for Community Projects:The change in this field makes it easier to index.  Type what you see taking the information first from the birth column or field on the document and then, if no information is recorded there, index exactly what is recorded in the nationality column or field.  You may see localities such as Philadelphia Pa, Panama Canal, etc.  Index them exactly as they are recorded.

Community Projects What Are They?

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In one of the comments the other day I got asked why are some of the projects labelled with "Community Project". So I went to FSI on twitter cause I know KG will usually answer my questions. Here's her answer.

Quote:

@aprillrobertson They aren't necessarily more important. It just means other large organizations or companies are joining in to help. -KG

Quote:

@aprillrobertson It started with FMP, Archives, FGS, NARA, ProQuest, & FamilySearch working together on the 1940 "Community" Project. -KG

US Michigan County Deaths 1921-1952 Project

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Main Project Home Page: http://sn.im/24mt8oa
Updates Page: http://sn.im/24mt83p
Additional Helps: http://sn.im/24mt8xc
Project Presentations:
- How to Index Place Names
- Michigan Certificate Number

Updates to General Indexing Guidelines: http://is.gd/9JrBV6
BASIC Indexing Guidelines (aka BIG): http://sn.im/24msx2u

Things You Should Remember: 

• September 9, 2012: Birth City / Town Field Help: If a city, town, or village was not recorded but a township was, then index the township name in this field, excluding the word 'township' or any abbreviation of it, such as 'twp.' --- Only index the township if no city, town or village is recorded. If city, town or village are recorded with a township name then index the city, town or village name not the township. 

• 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

My Day’s Review of Indexing / Arbitrating for #FamilySearch September 12, 2012

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Not sure what I’m going to be working on from this point on. So far today the focus is UK Derbyshire Parish Records since it’s the highest percentage complete of the English projects that are non-US. I tend to work on the projects that have the highest percentage complete that way I’m helping get those projects out quicker to the researchers who need them. Now of course that’s when I get batches that I can read from this project! I usually stick to anything post 1700s. No I don’t work on the Latin ones. I think that new rule for them is stupid. We’re not supposed to be interpreting (wrong wording?) the documents just transcribing them. Therefore we shouldn’t be removing any wording / letters from names etc.

Had a couple of batches that i arbitrated from this project today that indexers need to check the whole image for records. There were 4 records for the marriages instead of the standard 2 today. I’m sitting at the base for work so I’m working offline right now (no internet here) so instead of sending them back to be finished by another indexer I finished them off making sure to double check everything against the other indexer. If I was at home with internet I would have sent them back to be finished. I also know that you’d rather see what you’ve done wrong through the arbitration review instead of us arbitrators sending batches back.

For these parish record projects…

- do not index a gender unless it specifically states Female / Male or Daughter / Son / Wife. We do not index gender from the term Widow either.

- do not expand people’s names if they are abbreviated. Willm is not to be expanded to William. Type what you see.

Ships That are Not in the Lookup Lists for Passenger Projects

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These are a list of ship names in alphabetical order that we have found are not in the lookup lists for all the passenger list projects.

I've looked these up and verified that they did or do still exist.  This will be updated as I find more.

List of sites to use to verify the ships do / did exist.  If you've got a good one not on the list please let me know.

This one from Elmer:

"The best site is the Steve Morse site. In the left hand menu bar, hover your mouse over "Other Ports" and then choose the Port name and "Ship Lists" http://stevemorse.org
There you can choose the time period you want for that port, and it will list all the ships that arrived for that time period for that port.
You do not have to enter anything for Ship name.. Just enter the time period, and it will list ALL ships for that time period."

http://www.halpostcards.com/unofficial/shpndxfr.html
http://www.halpostcards.com/unofficial/mainindx.html

Here’s another index for ship names

http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/becites/genealogy/immigrant/61011247.idx3.html

Acadia
Aconcagua
Admiral Dewey
Admiral Schley
Albert J Berres
Alexander
American Press
Anselm
Belgenland
Bergensfjord
Braxton (If you come across Braxtonapa and then a dash and a number, the APA-number is the ship number not part of the name)
Britannic
British Crown
Canadian Pioneer
Cape Juby
Capital Victory
Caronia
Carroll
Caserta
Cecelia M. Dunlap (schooner)
Charles A Stafford
City Of Honolulu
City of Manchester
Crispin
Cymric
Drew
Ecuador
Elisabeth-Ann
Elizabeth Ann
Empress Of Asia
Empress of Canada
Envoy
Erl King
Farmer
Frankfort
Friesland
General A W Brewster
General C G Morton
General John Pope
General M C Meigs
General Parkhill (listed as Genl Parkhill)
General W F Hase
General William O Darby
Georgic
Glenville (listed twice as Glenvill -- I'm assuming it's the same?!?)
Gothland
Graf Waldersee
Granville
Guine
Harry T Inge
Hattie W. Wheeler
Hebe
Hecla
Illinois
Ivernia
James Moran
Kenilworth
Laconia
Lady Nelson
Lancashire
Levis
Lewis
London Mariner
Lord Clive
Lord Gough
Makura
Malolo
Manchester Commerce
Manitoban
Margaret
Marine Carp
Matsonia
Moana
Nederland
Newfoundland
Nimrod
Noordland
Nova Scotia
Ohio
Olivette
Parthia
Patriot
Pennland
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Phoenician
President Pierce
Propontis
Prussian
Rhynland
Rize
Romanic
Roscius
Russian Prince
Saint John
San Jose
San Rossore
Santa Teresa
Scythia
Sea Fiddler
Sea Star
Southwark
Switzerland
T W McKay
Travancore
Troy
Vinkt
Waesland
Waseland
West Isleta
Westernland
William F Cody
Windham Bay
Wyoming
Yarmouth

US New York Passenger Lists 1925-1942 Part A

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Main Instructions Page: http://sn.im/2508x6g
Updates Page: http://sn.im/2508xbj
Project Presentations: https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/images/1/11/Community_projects_place_of_birth_or_nationality.pdf
Sample Images:

• Sample Passenger List
• Oath to Inward Passenger List
• How to Index a Passenger List
• Affidavit
• Second Page of Manifest – “States Immigrant Inspection At Port of Arrival”
• Spouses and Children's Names Not Given
• Family Surname Represented with Ditto Marks
• Image Type
• Ship’s Name
• Arrival Year
• Surname
• Given Names
• Age
• Gender
• Place of Birth or Nationality

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

Things You Should Remember:
Place of Birth / Nationality

“Type the locality, nationality, or race written in the column or field for place of birth or nationality. If information was given for both place of birth and nationality, then index the information recorded for the place of birth. Type the term or terms as they were written. Do not correct misspellings or expand abbreviations. Do not index punctuation, except hyphens and apostrophes when they were written on the document as part of the [location] name. If no locality, nationality, or race was recorded in the column or field for place of birth or nationality, press Ctrl+B to mark this field as blank.” – Field Help

US Indiana WWI Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918 Part 3

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Main Project Page: http://sn.im/24ec5o4

Project Updates Page: http://sn.im/24ec5kd

Things That You Need to Remember:

• When the card says declarant, mark the field <Blank> unless there is a nation of citizenship listed on the card.
• You may download batches that are an index. They contain only a name and a page number. These would be marked as No Extractable Data and submitted.
• "Native Born" should be indexed as United States
• (Mar 9) - States other than the state in the project name are included. Please index them anyway.
• Citizenship for those on Indian Reservations- Enter United States as they are "wards" of the US.
• Q. How is Washington DC indexed?  A. Washington is entered in the city field and District of Columbia is entered in the state field.
• Q. Can an individual’s place of citizenship be used for birth country? A. The field helps tell us if the person was “native born (natural born)” it should be indexed as United States. However, if another country was listed as the country of citizenship, that should not be used as the country of birth. A person can be a citizen of a country other than his/her birth country.
• I know this is a positive group and this will fall on well-educated ears but would the arbitrators looking at WW1 drafts please remember that just because a person declares he is a citizen of country X does not mean that he was born there!
• On some of the registration cards, some towns like Mt. Pleasant, the Mt. is never spelled out. It is always listed as Mt, no period. There are more such examples all over. 
• the middle name should be indexed, not left off.
• It needs to be specified here that if it says "Natural Born" or "Native Born," you mark US as the country of birth. But I'm getting people marking the US as the country of birth if it's marked "Naturalized Citizen," which means they were born in another country, then came here and became citizens.
• NOT ALL lookup lists are complete.

US Michigan WWI Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918

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Main Project Page: http://sn.im/24ec5o4

Project Updates Page: http://sn.im/24ec5kd

Things That You Need to Remember:

• When the card says declarant, mark the field <Blank> unless there is a nation of citizenship listed on the card.
• You may download batches that are an index. They contain only a name and a page number. These would be marked as No Extractable Data and submitted.
• "Native Born" should be indexed as United States
• (Mar 9) - States other than the state in the project name are included. Please index them anyway.
• Citizenship for those on Indian Reservations- Enter United States as they are "wards" of the US.
• Q. How is Washington DC indexed? A. Washington is entered in the city field and District of Columbia is entered in the state field.
• Q. Can an individual’s place of citizenship be used for birth country? A. The field helps tell us if the person was “native born (natural born)” it should be indexed as United States. However, if another country was listed as the country of citizenship, that should not be used as the country of birth. A person can be a citizen of a country other than his/her birth country.
• I know this is a positive group and this will fall on well-educated ears but would the arbitrators looking at WW1 drafts please remember that just because a person declares he is a citizen of country X does not mean that he was born there!
• On some of the registration cards, some towns like Mt. Pleasant, the Mt. is never spelled out. It is always listed as Mt, no period. There are more such examples all over.
• the middle name should be indexed, not left off.
• It needs to be specified here that if it says "Natural Born" or "Native Born," you mark US as the country of birth. But I'm getting people marking the US as the country of birth if it's marked "Naturalized Citizen," which means they were born in another country, then came here and became citizens.
• NOT ALL lookup lists are complete.

US Minnesota WWI Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918

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Main Project Page: http://sn.im/24ec5o4

Project Updates Page: http://sn.im/24ec5kd

Things That You Need to Remember:

• When the card says declarant, mark the field <Blank> unless there is a nation of citizenship listed on the card.
• You may download batches that are an index. They contain only a name and a page number. These would be marked as No Extractable Data and submitted.
• "Native Born" should be indexed as United States
• (Mar 9) - States other than the state in the project name are included. Please index them anyway.
• Citizenship for those on Indian Reservations- Enter United States as they are "wards" of the US.
• Q. How is Washington DC indexed? A. Washington is entered in the city field and District of Columbia is entered in the state field.
• Q. Can an individual’s place of citizenship be used for birth country? A. The field helps tell us if the person was “native born (natural born)” it should be indexed as United States. However, if another country was listed as the country of citizenship, that should not be used as the country of birth. A person can be a citizen of a country other than his/her birth country.
• I know this is a positive group and this will fall on well-educated ears but would the arbitrators looking at WW1 drafts please remember that just because a person declares he is a citizen of country X does not mean that he was born there!
• On some of the registration cards, some towns like Mt. Pleasant, the Mt. is never spelled out. It is always listed as Mt, no period. There are more such examples all over.
• the middle name should be indexed, not left off.
• It needs to be specified here that if it says "Natural Born" or "Native Born," you mark US as the country of birth. But I'm getting people marking the US as the country of birth if it's marked "Naturalized Citizen," which means they were born in another country, then came here and became citizens.
• NOT ALL lookup lists are complete.

US New York WWI Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918

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Main Project Page: http://sn.im/24ec5o4

Project Updates Page: http://sn.im/24ec5kd

Things That You Need to Remember:

• When the card says declarant, mark the field <Blank> unless there is a nation of citizenship listed on the card.
• You may download batches that are an index. They contain only a name and a page number. These would be marked as No Extractable Data and submitted.
• "Native Born" should be indexed as United States
• (Mar 9) - States other than the state in the project name are included. Please index them anyway.
• Citizenship for those on Indian Reservations- Enter United States as they are "wards" of the US.
• Q. How is Washington DC indexed? A. Washington is entered in the city field and District of Columbia is entered in the state field.
• Q. Can an individual’s place of citizenship be used for birth country? A. The field helps tell us if the person was “native born (natural born)” it should be indexed as United States. However, if another country was listed as the country of citizenship, that should not be used as the country of birth. A person can be a citizen of a country other than his/her birth country.
• I know this is a positive group and this will fall on well-educated ears but would the arbitrators looking at WW1 drafts please remember that just because a person declares he is a citizen of country X does not mean that he was born there!
• On some of the registration cards, some towns like Mt. Pleasant, the Mt. is never spelled out. It is always listed as Mt, no period. There are more such examples all over.
• the middle name should be indexed, not left off.
• It needs to be specified here that if it says "Natural Born" or "Native Born," you mark US as the country of birth. But I'm getting people marking the US as the country of birth if it's marked "Naturalized Citizen," which means they were born in another country, then came here and became citizens.
• NOT ALL lookup lists are complete.

US Ohio WWI Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918

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Main Project Page: http://sn.im/24ec5o4

Project Updates Page: http://sn.im/24ec5kd

Things That You Need to Remember:

• When the card says declarant, mark the field <Blank> unless there is a nation of citizenship listed on the card.
• You may download batches that are an index. They contain only a name and a page number. These would be marked as No Extractable Data and submitted.
• "Native Born" should be indexed as United States
• (Mar 9) - States other than the state in the project name are included. Please index them anyway.
• Citizenship for those on Indian Reservations- Enter United States as they are "wards" of the US.
• Q. How is Washington DC indexed? A. Washington is entered in the city field and District of Columbia is entered in the state field.
• Q. Can an individual’s place of citizenship be used for birth country? A. The field helps tell us if the person was “native born (natural born)” it should be indexed as United States. However, if another country was listed as the country of citizenship, that should not be used as the country of birth. A person can be a citizen of a country other than his/her birth country.
• I know this is a positive group and this will fall on well-educated ears but would the arbitrators looking at WW1 drafts please remember that just because a person declares he is a citizen of country X does not mean that he was born there!
• On some of the registration cards, some towns like Mt. Pleasant, the Mt. is never spelled out. It is always listed as Mt, no period. There are more such examples all over.
• the middle name should be indexed, not left off.
• It needs to be specified here that if it says "Natural Born" or "Native Born," you mark US as the country of birth. But I'm getting people marking the US as the country of birth if it's marked "Naturalized Citizen," which means they were born in another country, then came here and became citizens.
• NOT ALL lookup lists are complete.

US Pennsylvania WWI Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918

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Main Project Page: http://sn.im/24ec5o4

Project Updates Page: http://sn.im/24ec5kd

Things That You Need to Remember:

• When the card says declarant, mark the field <Blank> unless there is a nation of citizenship listed on the card.
• You may download batches that are an index. They contain only a name and a page number. These would be marked as No Extractable Data and submitted.
• "Native Born" should be indexed as United States
• (Mar 9) - States other than the state in the project name are included. Please index them anyway.
• Citizenship for those on Indian Reservations- Enter United States as they are "wards" of the US.
• Q. How is Washington DC indexed? A. Washington is entered in the city field and District of Columbia is entered in the state field.
• Q. Can an individual’s place of citizenship be used for birth country? A. The field helps tell us if the person was “native born (natural born)” it should be indexed as United States. However, if another country was listed as the country of citizenship, that should not be used as the country of birth. A person can be a citizen of a country other than his/her birth country.
• I know this is a positive group and this will fall on well-educated ears but would the arbitrators looking at WW1 drafts please remember that just because a person declares he is a citizen of country X does not mean that he was born there!
• On some of the registration cards, some towns like Mt. Pleasant, the Mt. is never spelled out. It is always listed as Mt, no period. There are more such examples all over.
• the middle name should be indexed, not left off.
• It needs to be specified here that if it says "Natural Born" or "Native Born," you mark US as the country of birth. But I'm getting people marking the US as the country of birth if it's marked "Naturalized Citizen," which means they were born in another country, then came here and became citizens.
• NOT ALL lookup lists are complete.

US South Carolina WWI Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918

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Main Project Page: http://sn.im/24ec5o4

Project Updates Page: http://sn.im/24ec5kd

Things That You Need to Remember:

• When the card says declarant, mark the field <Blank> unless there is a nation of citizenship listed on the card.
• You may download batches that are an index. They contain only a name and a page number. These would be marked as No Extractable Data and submitted.
• "Native Born" should be indexed as United States
• (Mar 9) - States other than the state in the project name are included. Please index them anyway.
• Citizenship for those on Indian Reservations- Enter United States as they are "wards" of the US.
• Q. How is Washington DC indexed? A. Washington is entered in the city field and District of Columbia is entered in the state field.
• Q. Can an individual’s place of citizenship be used for birth country? A. The field helps tell us if the person was “native born (natural born)” it should be indexed as United States. However, if another country was listed as the country of citizenship, that should not be used as the country of birth. A person can be a citizen of a country other than his/her birth country.
• I know this is a positive group and this will fall on well-educated ears but would the arbitrators looking at WW1 drafts please remember that just because a person declares he is a citizen of country X does not mean that he was born there!
• On some of the registration cards, some towns like Mt. Pleasant, the Mt. is never spelled out. It is always listed as Mt, no period. There are more such examples all over.
• the middle name should be indexed, not left off.
• It needs to be specified here that if it says "Natural Born" or "Native Born," you mark US as the country of birth. But I'm getting people marking the US as the country of birth if it's marked "Naturalized Citizen," which means they were born in another country, then came here and became citizens.
• NOT ALL lookup lists are complete.

US Tennessee WWI Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918

To contact us Click HERE

Main Project Page: http://sn.im/24ec5o4

Project Updates Page: http://sn.im/24ec5kd

Things That You Need to Remember:

• When the card says declarant, mark the field <Blank> unless there is a nation of citizenship listed on the card.
• You may download batches that are an index. They contain only a name and a page number. These would be marked as No Extractable Data and submitted.
• "Native Born" should be indexed as United States
• (Mar 9) - States other than the state in the project name are included. Please index them anyway.
• Citizenship for those on Indian Reservations- Enter United States as they are "wards" of the US.
• Q. How is Washington DC indexed? A. Washington is entered in the city field and District of Columbia is entered in the state field.
• Q. Can an individual’s place of citizenship be used for birth country? A. The field helps tell us if the person was “native born (natural born)” it should be indexed as United States. However, if another country was listed as the country of citizenship, that should not be used as the country of birth. A person can be a citizen of a country other than his/her birth country.
• I know this is a positive group and this will fall on well-educated ears but would the arbitrators looking at WW1 drafts please remember that just because a person declares he is a citizen of country X does not mean that he was born there!
• On some of the registration cards, some towns like Mt. Pleasant, the Mt. is never spelled out. It is always listed as Mt, no period. There are more such examples all over.
• the middle name should be indexed, not left off.
• It needs to be specified here that if it says "Natural Born" or "Native Born," you mark US as the country of birth. But I'm getting people marking the US as the country of birth if it's marked "Naturalized Citizen," which means they were born in another country, then came here and became citizens.
• NOT ALL lookup lists are complete.

US Virginia WWI Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918

To contact us Click HERE

Main Project Page: http://sn.im/24ec5o4

Project Updates Page: http://sn.im/24ec5kd

Things That You Need to Remember:

• When the card says declarant, mark the field <Blank> unless there is a nation of citizenship listed on the card.
• You may download batches that are an index. They contain only a name and a page number. These would be marked as No Extractable Data and submitted.
• "Native Born" should be indexed as United States
• (Mar 9) - States other than the state in the project name are included. Please index them anyway.
• Citizenship for those on Indian Reservations- Enter United States as they are "wards" of the US.
• Q. How is Washington DC indexed? A. Washington is entered in the city field and District of Columbia is entered in the state field.
• Q. Can an individual’s place of citizenship be used for birth country? A. The field helps tell us if the person was “native born (natural born)” it should be indexed as United States. However, if another country was listed as the country of citizenship, that should not be used as the country of birth. A person can be a citizen of a country other than his/her birth country.
• I know this is a positive group and this will fall on well-educated ears but would the arbitrators looking at WW1 drafts please remember that just because a person declares he is a citizen of country X does not mean that he was born there!
• On some of the registration cards, some towns like Mt. Pleasant, the Mt. is never spelled out. It is always listed as Mt, no period. There are more such examples all over.
• the middle name should be indexed, not left off.
• It needs to be specified here that if it says "Natural Born" or "Native Born," you mark US as the country of birth. But I'm getting people marking the US as the country of birth if it's marked "Naturalized Citizen," which means they were born in another country, then came here and became citizens.
• NOT ALL lookup lists are complete.

US West Virginia WWI Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918

To contact us Click HERE

Main Project Page: http://sn.im/24ec5o4

Project Updates Page: http://sn.im/24ec5kd

Things That You Need to Remember:

• When the card says declarant, mark the field <Blank> unless there is a nation of citizenship listed on the card.
• You may download batches that are an index. They contain only a name and a page number. These would be marked as No Extractable Data and submitted.
• "Native Born" should be indexed as United States
• (Mar 9) - States other than the state in the project name are included. Please index them anyway.
• Citizenship for those on Indian Reservations- Enter United States as they are "wards" of the US.
• Q. How is Washington DC indexed? A. Washington is entered in the city field and District of Columbia is entered in the state field.
• Q. Can an individual’s place of citizenship be used for birth country? A. The field helps tell us if the person was “native born (natural born)” it should be indexed as United States. However, if another country was listed as the country of citizenship, that should not be used as the country of birth. A person can be a citizen of a country other than his/her birth country.
• I know this is a positive group and this will fall on well-educated ears but would the arbitrators looking at WW1 drafts please remember that just because a person declares he is a citizen of country X does not mean that he was born there!
• On some of the registration cards, some towns like Mt. Pleasant, the Mt. is never spelled out. It is always listed as Mt, no period. There are more such examples all over.
• the middle name should be indexed, not left off.
• It needs to be specified here that if it says "Natural Born" or "Native Born," you mark US as the country of birth. But I'm getting people marking the US as the country of birth if it's marked "Naturalized Citizen," which means they were born in another country, then came here and became citizens.
• NOT ALL lookup lists are complete.

US Wisconsin WWI Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918

To contact us Click HERE

Main Project Page: http://sn.im/24ec5o4

Project Updates Page: http://sn.im/24ec5kd

Things That You Need to Remember:

• When the card says declarant, mark the field <Blank> unless there is a nation of citizenship listed on the card.
• You may download batches that are an index. They contain only a name and a page number. These would be marked as No Extractable Data and submitted.
• "Native Born" should be indexed as United States
• (Mar 9) - States other than the state in the project name are included. Please index them anyway.
• Citizenship for those on Indian Reservations- Enter United States as they are "wards" of the US.
• Q. How is Washington DC indexed? A. Washington is entered in the city field and District of Columbia is entered in the state field.
• Q. Can an individual’s place of citizenship be used for birth country? A. The field helps tell us if the person was “native born (natural born)” it should be indexed as United States. However, if another country was listed as the country of citizenship, that should not be used as the country of birth. A person can be a citizen of a country other than his/her birth country.
• I know this is a positive group and this will fall on well-educated ears but would the arbitrators looking at WW1 drafts please remember that just because a person declares he is a citizen of country X does not mean that he was born there!
• On some of the registration cards, some towns like Mt. Pleasant, the Mt. is never spelled out. It is always listed as Mt, no period. There are more such examples all over.
• the middle name should be indexed, not left off.
• It needs to be specified here that if it says "Natural Born" or "Native Born," you mark US as the country of birth. But I'm getting people marking the US as the country of birth if it's marked "Naturalized Citizen," which means they were born in another country, then came here and became citizens.
• NOT ALL lookup lists are complete.

Batches I’ve Indexed / Arbitrated September 15 2012

To contact us Click HERE

Working on the highest priority batches right now and the US (Community Project) New York Passengers Lists 1925-1942 Part A came up.

Had a couple batches now where the indexers need a reminder that this rule still applies because FSI has not taken it out of the example link…

LIST OF UNITED STATES CITIZENS

[The above photo] “is an example of a passenger list of United States citizens. Unless a location outside the United States was indicated in the place of birth column, for images with this kind of column heading, you should index United States in the Place of Birth or Nationality field for each record on the page.” – from the example links within the indexing project

More than 10 records - Also when an image has more than 10 records on it… we can use the above picture as an example again for this, it has more than 10, you need to add in the additional records and finish indexing the whole document. Don’t just quit and submit it with only 10 names. If you and the other indexer both only index the first 10 records and get nothing wrong then you’re causing the additional records to never be indexed.

Blank Fields – DO NOT type in the word “blank”. Use Ctrl+B.

Watch For the Indexing Wiki to Return!

To contact us Click HERE

Keep an eye on the wiki pages. Just got official word via the forums that FSI is working on bringing them back for questions and answers.

When in an updates page in the wiki make sure you log in.  Log in link is in upper right corner. Same user id and password and you use in the indexing program.

On the right hand side column of the page there is a link to “Discussion” in the 3rd purple box. Click on that Discussion link. This will be where we will most likely be posting the questions. There wont be official answers at this time unless they’re posted on the updates page. The discussion tabs are not necessarily monitored by official staff right now either.

In the updates pages discussion pages there are currently discussions going on about different projects. At this time there are no official posts within those pages but other indexers are helping out when they can.

You can find me also on the wiki at my user page here https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/User:Aprilrobertson

Chat with me here on the wiki https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/User_talk:Aprilrobertson

Always use wiki etiquette. Always sign wiki comments with ~~~~ (4 tildes) this will insert your signature and a time stamp.

US Virginia WWI Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918

Main Project Page: http://sn.im/24ec5o4

Project Updates Page: http://sn.im/24ec5kd

Things That You Need to Remember:

• When the card says declarant, mark the field <Blank> unless there is a nation of citizenship listed on the card.
• You may download batches that are an index. They contain only a name and a page number. These would be marked as No Extractable Data and submitted.
• "Native Born" should be indexed as United States
• (Mar 9) - States other than the state in the project name are included. Please index them anyway.
• Citizenship for those on Indian Reservations- Enter United States as they are "wards" of the US.
• Q. How is Washington DC indexed? A. Washington is entered in the city field and District of Columbia is entered in the state field.
• Q. Can an individual’s place of citizenship be used for birth country? A. The field helps tell us if the person was “native born (natural born)” it should be indexed as United States. However, if another country was listed as the country of citizenship, that should not be used as the country of birth. A person can be a citizen of a country other than his/her birth country.
• I know this is a positive group and this will fall on well-educated ears but would the arbitrators looking at WW1 drafts please remember that just because a person declares he is a citizen of country X does not mean that he was born there!
• On some of the registration cards, some towns like Mt. Pleasant, the Mt. is never spelled out. It is always listed as Mt, no period. There are more such examples all over.
• the middle name should be indexed, not left off.
• It needs to be specified here that if it says "Natural Born" or "Native Born," you mark US as the country of birth. But I'm getting people marking the US as the country of birth if it's marked "Naturalized Citizen," which means they were born in another country, then came here and became citizens.
• NOT ALL lookup lists are complete.

US West Virginia WWI Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918

Main Project Page: http://sn.im/24ec5o4

Project Updates Page: http://sn.im/24ec5kd

Things That You Need to Remember:

• When the card says declarant, mark the field <Blank> unless there is a nation of citizenship listed on the card.
• You may download batches that are an index. They contain only a name and a page number. These would be marked as No Extractable Data and submitted.
• "Native Born" should be indexed as United States
• (Mar 9) - States other than the state in the project name are included. Please index them anyway.
• Citizenship for those on Indian Reservations- Enter United States as they are "wards" of the US.
• Q. How is Washington DC indexed? A. Washington is entered in the city field and District of Columbia is entered in the state field.
• Q. Can an individual’s place of citizenship be used for birth country? A. The field helps tell us if the person was “native born (natural born)” it should be indexed as United States. However, if another country was listed as the country of citizenship, that should not be used as the country of birth. A person can be a citizen of a country other than his/her birth country.
• I know this is a positive group and this will fall on well-educated ears but would the arbitrators looking at WW1 drafts please remember that just because a person declares he is a citizen of country X does not mean that he was born there!
• On some of the registration cards, some towns like Mt. Pleasant, the Mt. is never spelled out. It is always listed as Mt, no period. There are more such examples all over.
• the middle name should be indexed, not left off.
• It needs to be specified here that if it says "Natural Born" or "Native Born," you mark US as the country of birth. But I'm getting people marking the US as the country of birth if it's marked "Naturalized Citizen," which means they were born in another country, then came here and became citizens.
• NOT ALL lookup lists are complete.

US Wisconsin WWI Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918

Main Project Page: http://sn.im/24ec5o4

Project Updates Page: http://sn.im/24ec5kd

Things That You Need to Remember:

• When the card says declarant, mark the field <Blank> unless there is a nation of citizenship listed on the card.
• You may download batches that are an index. They contain only a name and a page number. These would be marked as No Extractable Data and submitted.
• "Native Born" should be indexed as United States
• (Mar 9) - States other than the state in the project name are included. Please index them anyway.
• Citizenship for those on Indian Reservations- Enter United States as they are "wards" of the US.
• Q. How is Washington DC indexed? A. Washington is entered in the city field and District of Columbia is entered in the state field.
• Q. Can an individual’s place of citizenship be used for birth country? A. The field helps tell us if the person was “native born (natural born)” it should be indexed as United States. However, if another country was listed as the country of citizenship, that should not be used as the country of birth. A person can be a citizen of a country other than his/her birth country.
• I know this is a positive group and this will fall on well-educated ears but would the arbitrators looking at WW1 drafts please remember that just because a person declares he is a citizen of country X does not mean that he was born there!
• On some of the registration cards, some towns like Mt. Pleasant, the Mt. is never spelled out. It is always listed as Mt, no period. There are more such examples all over.
• the middle name should be indexed, not left off.
• It needs to be specified here that if it says "Natural Born" or "Native Born," you mark US as the country of birth. But I'm getting people marking the US as the country of birth if it's marked "Naturalized Citizen," which means they were born in another country, then came here and became citizens.
• NOT ALL lookup lists are complete.

Batches I’ve Indexed / Arbitrated September 15 2012

Working on the highest priority batches right now and the US (Community Project) New York Passengers Lists 1925-1942 Part A came up.

Had a couple batches now where the indexers need a reminder that this rule still applies because FSI has not taken it out of the example link…

LIST OF UNITED STATES CITIZENS

[The above photo] “is an example of a passenger list of United States citizens. Unless a location outside the United States was indicated in the place of birth column, for images with this kind of column heading, you should index United States in the Place of Birth or Nationality field for each record on the page.” – from the example links within the indexing project

More than 10 records - Also when an image has more than 10 records on it… we can use the above picture as an example again for this, it has more than 10, you need to add in the additional records and finish indexing the whole document. Don’t just quit and submit it with only 10 names. If you and the other indexer both only index the first 10 records and get nothing wrong then you’re causing the additional records to never be indexed.

Blank Fields – DO NOT type in the word “blank”. Use Ctrl+B.

Watch For the Indexing Wiki to Return!

Keep an eye on the wiki pages. Just got official word via the forums that FSI is working on bringing them back for questions and answers.

When in an updates page in the wiki make sure you log in.  Log in link is in upper right corner. Same user id and password and you use in the indexing program.

On the right hand side column of the page there is a link to “Discussion” in the 3rd purple box. Click on that Discussion link. This will be where we will most likely be posting the questions. There wont be official answers at this time unless they’re posted on the updates page. The discussion tabs are not necessarily monitored by official staff right now either.

In the updates pages discussion pages there are currently discussions going on about different projects. At this time there are no official posts within those pages but other indexers are helping out when they can.

You can find me also on the wiki at my user page here https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/User:Aprilrobertson

Chat with me here on the wiki https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/User_talk:Aprilrobertson

Always use wiki etiquette. Always sign wiki comments with ~~~~ (4 tildes) this will insert your signature and a time stamp.

US Virginia WWI Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918

Main Project Page: http://sn.im/24ec5o4

Project Updates Page: http://sn.im/24ec5kd

Things That You Need to Remember:

• When the card says declarant, mark the field <Blank> unless there is a nation of citizenship listed on the card.
• You may download batches that are an index. They contain only a name and a page number. These would be marked as No Extractable Data and submitted.
• "Native Born" should be indexed as United States
• (Mar 9) - States other than the state in the project name are included. Please index them anyway.
• Citizenship for those on Indian Reservations- Enter United States as they are "wards" of the US.
• Q. How is Washington DC indexed? A. Washington is entered in the city field and District of Columbia is entered in the state field.
• Q. Can an individual’s place of citizenship be used for birth country? A. The field helps tell us if the person was “native born (natural born)” it should be indexed as United States. However, if another country was listed as the country of citizenship, that should not be used as the country of birth. A person can be a citizen of a country other than his/her birth country.
• I know this is a positive group and this will fall on well-educated ears but would the arbitrators looking at WW1 drafts please remember that just because a person declares he is a citizen of country X does not mean that he was born there!
• On some of the registration cards, some towns like Mt. Pleasant, the Mt. is never spelled out. It is always listed as Mt, no period. There are more such examples all over.
• the middle name should be indexed, not left off.
• It needs to be specified here that if it says "Natural Born" or "Native Born," you mark US as the country of birth. But I'm getting people marking the US as the country of birth if it's marked "Naturalized Citizen," which means they were born in another country, then came here and became citizens.
• NOT ALL lookup lists are complete.

US West Virginia WWI Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918

Main Project Page: http://sn.im/24ec5o4

Project Updates Page: http://sn.im/24ec5kd

Things That You Need to Remember:

• When the card says declarant, mark the field <Blank> unless there is a nation of citizenship listed on the card.
• You may download batches that are an index. They contain only a name and a page number. These would be marked as No Extractable Data and submitted.
• "Native Born" should be indexed as United States
• (Mar 9) - States other than the state in the project name are included. Please index them anyway.
• Citizenship for those on Indian Reservations- Enter United States as they are "wards" of the US.
• Q. How is Washington DC indexed? A. Washington is entered in the city field and District of Columbia is entered in the state field.
• Q. Can an individual’s place of citizenship be used for birth country? A. The field helps tell us if the person was “native born (natural born)” it should be indexed as United States. However, if another country was listed as the country of citizenship, that should not be used as the country of birth. A person can be a citizen of a country other than his/her birth country.
• I know this is a positive group and this will fall on well-educated ears but would the arbitrators looking at WW1 drafts please remember that just because a person declares he is a citizen of country X does not mean that he was born there!
• On some of the registration cards, some towns like Mt. Pleasant, the Mt. is never spelled out. It is always listed as Mt, no period. There are more such examples all over.
• the middle name should be indexed, not left off.
• It needs to be specified here that if it says "Natural Born" or "Native Born," you mark US as the country of birth. But I'm getting people marking the US as the country of birth if it's marked "Naturalized Citizen," which means they were born in another country, then came here and became citizens.
• NOT ALL lookup lists are complete.

US Wisconsin WWI Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918

Main Project Page: http://sn.im/24ec5o4

Project Updates Page: http://sn.im/24ec5kd

Things That You Need to Remember:

• When the card says declarant, mark the field <Blank> unless there is a nation of citizenship listed on the card.
• You may download batches that are an index. They contain only a name and a page number. These would be marked as No Extractable Data and submitted.
• "Native Born" should be indexed as United States
• (Mar 9) - States other than the state in the project name are included. Please index them anyway.
• Citizenship for those on Indian Reservations- Enter United States as they are "wards" of the US.
• Q. How is Washington DC indexed? A. Washington is entered in the city field and District of Columbia is entered in the state field.
• Q. Can an individual’s place of citizenship be used for birth country? A. The field helps tell us if the person was “native born (natural born)” it should be indexed as United States. However, if another country was listed as the country of citizenship, that should not be used as the country of birth. A person can be a citizen of a country other than his/her birth country.
• I know this is a positive group and this will fall on well-educated ears but would the arbitrators looking at WW1 drafts please remember that just because a person declares he is a citizen of country X does not mean that he was born there!
• On some of the registration cards, some towns like Mt. Pleasant, the Mt. is never spelled out. It is always listed as Mt, no period. There are more such examples all over.
• the middle name should be indexed, not left off.
• It needs to be specified here that if it says "Natural Born" or "Native Born," you mark US as the country of birth. But I'm getting people marking the US as the country of birth if it's marked "Naturalized Citizen," which means they were born in another country, then came here and became citizens.
• NOT ALL lookup lists are complete.

Batches I’ve Indexed / Arbitrated September 15 2012

Working on the highest priority batches right now and the US (Community Project) New York Passengers Lists 1925-1942 Part A came up.

Had a couple batches now where the indexers need a reminder that this rule still applies because FSI has not taken it out of the example link…

LIST OF UNITED STATES CITIZENS

[The above photo] “is an example of a passenger list of United States citizens. Unless a location outside the United States was indicated in the place of birth column, for images with this kind of column heading, you should index United States in the Place of Birth or Nationality field for each record on the page.” – from the example links within the indexing project

More than 10 records - Also when an image has more than 10 records on it… we can use the above picture as an example again for this, it has more than 10, you need to add in the additional records and finish indexing the whole document. Don’t just quit and submit it with only 10 names. If you and the other indexer both only index the first 10 records and get nothing wrong then you’re causing the additional records to never be indexed.

Blank Fields – DO NOT type in the word “blank”. Use Ctrl+B.

Watch For the Indexing Wiki to Return!

Keep an eye on the wiki pages. Just got official word via the forums that FSI is working on bringing them back for questions and answers.

When in an updates page in the wiki make sure you log in.  Log in link is in upper right corner. Same user id and password and you use in the indexing program.

On the right hand side column of the page there is a link to “Discussion” in the 3rd purple box. Click on that Discussion link. This will be where we will most likely be posting the questions. There wont be official answers at this time unless they’re posted on the updates page. The discussion tabs are not necessarily monitored by official staff right now either.

In the updates pages discussion pages there are currently discussions going on about different projects. At this time there are no official posts within those pages but other indexers are helping out when they can.

You can find me also on the wiki at my user page here https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/User:Aprilrobertson

Chat with me here on the wiki https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/User_talk:Aprilrobertson

Always use wiki etiquette. Always sign wiki comments with ~~~~ (4 tildes) this will insert your signature and a time stamp.

US Virginia WWI Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918

Main Project Page: http://sn.im/24ec5o4

Project Updates Page: http://sn.im/24ec5kd

Things That You Need to Remember:

• When the card says declarant, mark the field <Blank> unless there is a nation of citizenship listed on the card.
• You may download batches that are an index. They contain only a name and a page number. These would be marked as No Extractable Data and submitted.
• "Native Born" should be indexed as United States
• (Mar 9) - States other than the state in the project name are included. Please index them anyway.
• Citizenship for those on Indian Reservations- Enter United States as they are "wards" of the US.
• Q. How is Washington DC indexed? A. Washington is entered in the city field and District of Columbia is entered in the state field.
• Q. Can an individual’s place of citizenship be used for birth country? A. The field helps tell us if the person was “native born (natural born)” it should be indexed as United States. However, if another country was listed as the country of citizenship, that should not be used as the country of birth. A person can be a citizen of a country other than his/her birth country.
• I know this is a positive group and this will fall on well-educated ears but would the arbitrators looking at WW1 drafts please remember that just because a person declares he is a citizen of country X does not mean that he was born there!
• On some of the registration cards, some towns like Mt. Pleasant, the Mt. is never spelled out. It is always listed as Mt, no period. There are more such examples all over.
• the middle name should be indexed, not left off.
• It needs to be specified here that if it says "Natural Born" or "Native Born," you mark US as the country of birth. But I'm getting people marking the US as the country of birth if it's marked "Naturalized Citizen," which means they were born in another country, then came here and became citizens.
• NOT ALL lookup lists are complete.

US West Virginia WWI Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918

Main Project Page: http://sn.im/24ec5o4

Project Updates Page: http://sn.im/24ec5kd

Things That You Need to Remember:

• When the card says declarant, mark the field <Blank> unless there is a nation of citizenship listed on the card.
• You may download batches that are an index. They contain only a name and a page number. These would be marked as No Extractable Data and submitted.
• "Native Born" should be indexed as United States
• (Mar 9) - States other than the state in the project name are included. Please index them anyway.
• Citizenship for those on Indian Reservations- Enter United States as they are "wards" of the US.
• Q. How is Washington DC indexed? A. Washington is entered in the city field and District of Columbia is entered in the state field.
• Q. Can an individual’s place of citizenship be used for birth country? A. The field helps tell us if the person was “native born (natural born)” it should be indexed as United States. However, if another country was listed as the country of citizenship, that should not be used as the country of birth. A person can be a citizen of a country other than his/her birth country.
• I know this is a positive group and this will fall on well-educated ears but would the arbitrators looking at WW1 drafts please remember that just because a person declares he is a citizen of country X does not mean that he was born there!
• On some of the registration cards, some towns like Mt. Pleasant, the Mt. is never spelled out. It is always listed as Mt, no period. There are more such examples all over.
• the middle name should be indexed, not left off.
• It needs to be specified here that if it says "Natural Born" or "Native Born," you mark US as the country of birth. But I'm getting people marking the US as the country of birth if it's marked "Naturalized Citizen," which means they were born in another country, then came here and became citizens.
• NOT ALL lookup lists are complete.

US Wisconsin WWI Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918

Main Project Page: http://sn.im/24ec5o4

Project Updates Page: http://sn.im/24ec5kd

Things That You Need to Remember:

• When the card says declarant, mark the field <Blank> unless there is a nation of citizenship listed on the card.
• You may download batches that are an index. They contain only a name and a page number. These would be marked as No Extractable Data and submitted.
• "Native Born" should be indexed as United States
• (Mar 9) - States other than the state in the project name are included. Please index them anyway.
• Citizenship for those on Indian Reservations- Enter United States as they are "wards" of the US.
• Q. How is Washington DC indexed? A. Washington is entered in the city field and District of Columbia is entered in the state field.
• Q. Can an individual’s place of citizenship be used for birth country? A. The field helps tell us if the person was “native born (natural born)” it should be indexed as United States. However, if another country was listed as the country of citizenship, that should not be used as the country of birth. A person can be a citizen of a country other than his/her birth country.
• I know this is a positive group and this will fall on well-educated ears but would the arbitrators looking at WW1 drafts please remember that just because a person declares he is a citizen of country X does not mean that he was born there!
• On some of the registration cards, some towns like Mt. Pleasant, the Mt. is never spelled out. It is always listed as Mt, no period. There are more such examples all over.
• the middle name should be indexed, not left off.
• It needs to be specified here that if it says "Natural Born" or "Native Born," you mark US as the country of birth. But I'm getting people marking the US as the country of birth if it's marked "Naturalized Citizen," which means they were born in another country, then came here and became citizens.
• NOT ALL lookup lists are complete.

Batches I’ve Indexed / Arbitrated September 15 2012

Working on the highest priority batches right now and the US (Community Project) New York Passengers Lists 1925-1942 Part A came up.

Had a couple batches now where the indexers need a reminder that this rule still applies because FSI has not taken it out of the example link…

LIST OF UNITED STATES CITIZENS

[The above photo] “is an example of a passenger list of United States citizens. Unless a location outside the United States was indicated in the place of birth column, for images with this kind of column heading, you should index United States in the Place of Birth or Nationality field for each record on the page.” – from the example links within the indexing project

More than 10 records - Also when an image has more than 10 records on it… we can use the above picture as an example again for this, it has more than 10, you need to add in the additional records and finish indexing the whole document. Don’t just quit and submit it with only 10 names. If you and the other indexer both only index the first 10 records and get nothing wrong then you’re causing the additional records to never be indexed.

Blank Fields – DO NOT type in the word “blank”. Use Ctrl+B.

Watch For the Indexing Wiki to Return!

Keep an eye on the wiki pages. Just got official word via the forums that FSI is working on bringing them back for questions and answers.

When in an updates page in the wiki make sure you log in.  Log in link is in upper right corner. Same user id and password and you use in the indexing program.

On the right hand side column of the page there is a link to “Discussion” in the 3rd purple box. Click on that Discussion link. This will be where we will most likely be posting the questions. There wont be official answers at this time unless they’re posted on the updates page. The discussion tabs are not necessarily monitored by official staff right now either.

In the updates pages discussion pages there are currently discussions going on about different projects. At this time there are no official posts within those pages but other indexers are helping out when they can.

You can find me also on the wiki at my user page here https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/User:Aprilrobertson

Chat with me here on the wiki https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/User_talk:Aprilrobertson

Always use wiki etiquette. Always sign wiki comments with ~~~~ (4 tildes) this will insert your signature and a time stamp.

US Virginia WWI Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918

Main Project Page: http://sn.im/24ec5o4

Project Updates Page: http://sn.im/24ec5kd

Things That You Need to Remember:

• When the card says declarant, mark the field <Blank> unless there is a nation of citizenship listed on the card.
• You may download batches that are an index. They contain only a name and a page number. These would be marked as No Extractable Data and submitted.
• "Native Born" should be indexed as United States
• (Mar 9) - States other than the state in the project name are included. Please index them anyway.
• Citizenship for those on Indian Reservations- Enter United States as they are "wards" of the US.
• Q. How is Washington DC indexed? A. Washington is entered in the city field and District of Columbia is entered in the state field.
• Q. Can an individual’s place of citizenship be used for birth country? A. The field helps tell us if the person was “native born (natural born)” it should be indexed as United States. However, if another country was listed as the country of citizenship, that should not be used as the country of birth. A person can be a citizen of a country other than his/her birth country.
• I know this is a positive group and this will fall on well-educated ears but would the arbitrators looking at WW1 drafts please remember that just because a person declares he is a citizen of country X does not mean that he was born there!
• On some of the registration cards, some towns like Mt. Pleasant, the Mt. is never spelled out. It is always listed as Mt, no period. There are more such examples all over.
• the middle name should be indexed, not left off.
• It needs to be specified here that if it says "Natural Born" or "Native Born," you mark US as the country of birth. But I'm getting people marking the US as the country of birth if it's marked "Naturalized Citizen," which means they were born in another country, then came here and became citizens.
• NOT ALL lookup lists are complete.

US West Virginia WWI Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918

Main Project Page: http://sn.im/24ec5o4

Project Updates Page: http://sn.im/24ec5kd

Things That You Need to Remember:

• When the card says declarant, mark the field <Blank> unless there is a nation of citizenship listed on the card.
• You may download batches that are an index. They contain only a name and a page number. These would be marked as No Extractable Data and submitted.
• "Native Born" should be indexed as United States
• (Mar 9) - States other than the state in the project name are included. Please index them anyway.
• Citizenship for those on Indian Reservations- Enter United States as they are "wards" of the US.
• Q. How is Washington DC indexed? A. Washington is entered in the city field and District of Columbia is entered in the state field.
• Q. Can an individual’s place of citizenship be used for birth country? A. The field helps tell us if the person was “native born (natural born)” it should be indexed as United States. However, if another country was listed as the country of citizenship, that should not be used as the country of birth. A person can be a citizen of a country other than his/her birth country.
• I know this is a positive group and this will fall on well-educated ears but would the arbitrators looking at WW1 drafts please remember that just because a person declares he is a citizen of country X does not mean that he was born there!
• On some of the registration cards, some towns like Mt. Pleasant, the Mt. is never spelled out. It is always listed as Mt, no period. There are more such examples all over.
• the middle name should be indexed, not left off.
• It needs to be specified here that if it says "Natural Born" or "Native Born," you mark US as the country of birth. But I'm getting people marking the US as the country of birth if it's marked "Naturalized Citizen," which means they were born in another country, then came here and became citizens.
• NOT ALL lookup lists are complete.

US Wisconsin WWI Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918

Main Project Page: http://sn.im/24ec5o4

Project Updates Page: http://sn.im/24ec5kd

Things That You Need to Remember:

• When the card says declarant, mark the field <Blank> unless there is a nation of citizenship listed on the card.
• You may download batches that are an index. They contain only a name and a page number. These would be marked as No Extractable Data and submitted.
• "Native Born" should be indexed as United States
• (Mar 9) - States other than the state in the project name are included. Please index them anyway.
• Citizenship for those on Indian Reservations- Enter United States as they are "wards" of the US.
• Q. How is Washington DC indexed? A. Washington is entered in the city field and District of Columbia is entered in the state field.
• Q. Can an individual’s place of citizenship be used for birth country? A. The field helps tell us if the person was “native born (natural born)” it should be indexed as United States. However, if another country was listed as the country of citizenship, that should not be used as the country of birth. A person can be a citizen of a country other than his/her birth country.
• I know this is a positive group and this will fall on well-educated ears but would the arbitrators looking at WW1 drafts please remember that just because a person declares he is a citizen of country X does not mean that he was born there!
• On some of the registration cards, some towns like Mt. Pleasant, the Mt. is never spelled out. It is always listed as Mt, no period. There are more such examples all over.
• the middle name should be indexed, not left off.
• It needs to be specified here that if it says "Natural Born" or "Native Born," you mark US as the country of birth. But I'm getting people marking the US as the country of birth if it's marked "Naturalized Citizen," which means they were born in another country, then came here and became citizens.
• NOT ALL lookup lists are complete.

Batches I’ve Indexed / Arbitrated September 15 2012

Working on the highest priority batches right now and the US (Community Project) New York Passengers Lists 1925-1942 Part A came up.

Had a couple batches now where the indexers need a reminder that this rule still applies because FSI has not taken it out of the example link…

LIST OF UNITED STATES CITIZENS

[The above photo] “is an example of a passenger list of United States citizens. Unless a location outside the United States was indicated in the place of birth column, for images with this kind of column heading, you should index United States in the Place of Birth or Nationality field for each record on the page.” – from the example links within the indexing project

More than 10 records - Also when an image has more than 10 records on it… we can use the above picture as an example again for this, it has more than 10, you need to add in the additional records and finish indexing the whole document. Don’t just quit and submit it with only 10 names. If you and the other indexer both only index the first 10 records and get nothing wrong then you’re causing the additional records to never be indexed.

Blank Fields – DO NOT type in the word “blank”. Use Ctrl+B.