How to Start Indexing for FamilySearch Indexing

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These instructions are for if you are at home and don’t have the program installed.  If you’re at a FS Library you shouldn’t have to do these steps. They should already have the program installed. You’ll just have to start the program and click on Register for New Account if you don’t already have one.

1. Go to http://indexing.familysearch.org
2. Click on the Get Started Button beside the photo in the middle of the screen.
3. This will take you to the instructions page for FSI on how to download and install the program.

Batches Done Today

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Still no indexing batches back from arbitration today.

Batches I’ve arbitrated today:

US (Community Project) New York Passenger Lists 1925-1942 

• 3 batches where indexers didn’t check the whole image for more than 10 records. Sent back to be completed. If you’re a group leader or Stake Indexing Director please teach your indexers how to scroll around the screen and check for other records. Teach them how to add in additional records as well.
• 1 batch where I had to mark it NED for both indexers. It was a list of the crew. We don’t index crew lists.
• Do not index titles in with the given names.
• Do not index the date in with the country of birth / nationality fields
• Index the crossed out lines

Batches Indexed / Arbitrated October 4 2012

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Nothing has come back from what I’ve indexed again today.

Here’s what I’ve arbitrated:

US (Community Project) New York Passenger Lists 1925-1942

• Sent at least 7 batches back now to be finished by another indexer.
• Indexer not indexing the crossed out information. We are to be indexing the crossed out names
• 2 batches now. Lists of crew members whether alien or US are not to be indexed. They are NED.
• 2 batches now had to fix cause they indexed them. We are not to be indexing the “Record of Aliens Held For Special Inquiry” images. “The names of these passengers, who were detained after arrival, would typically appear on a normal passenger list and would be indexed with the image of that list. Do not index lists of detained
  passengers.” – Project Presentation https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/images/8/8d/Passenger_How_To.pdf
 

US New York Passenger Lists 1925-1942

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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

Things Indexers and Arbitrators are doing WRONG:
 

• Not indexing the crossed out lines. By us indexing these crossed out lines the researchers will be able to track their ancestors even though most of them didn’t arrive at the passenger list destination.
• Indexing the Nationality column when there is a Birth Country column. We are to be indexing from the Birth Column first and then if there’s nothing in that column or there is no column labelled that then we are to be indexing from the Nationality column.
• Not indexing lines past line 10. Check the whole image for records past #10. If there are more than 10 records on the image then Use Alt+T and then choose “Records per Image” and change that number to the number of records on the image.
• Do not index the page labelled “STATES IMMIGRATION OFFICER AT PORT OF ARRIVAL”. It’s the second page of a register and it’s in the examples as a page that we are to be marking No Extractable Data (NED). https://indexing.familysearch.org/projtab/viewProject.jsf?url=USNewYorkPassengerLists19251942PartC/examples/Example41.html
• Affidavits are to be indexed as No Extractable Data (NED). https://indexing.familysearch.org/projtab/viewProject.jsf?url=USNewYorkPassengerLists19251942PartC/examples/Example40.html
 

Arbitrating US New York Passenger Lists 1925-1942 Today October 2 2012

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Here’s what the indexers are doing wrong on this project so far today. If any of this is new I’ve added it to the US New York Passenger Lists 1925-1942 Main Post as well.

• Do not index the page labelled “STATES IMMIGRATION OFFICER AT PORT OF ARRIVAL”. It’s the second page of a register and it’s in the examples as a page that we are to be marking No Extractable Data (NED). https://indexing.familysearch.org/projtab/viewProject.jsf?url=USNewYorkPassengerLists19251942PartC/examples/Example41.html
• Not indexing lines past 10.
• Indexing from the Nationality column instead of the Birth Column.
• Not indexing the crossed out lines.
• Affidavits are to be indexed as No Extractable Data (NED). https://indexing.familysearch.org/projtab/viewProject.jsf?url=USNewYorkPassengerLists19251942PartC/examples/Example40.html