So far today I’m going to work on arbitrating Jamaica Civil Marriages and Deaths 1871-1995 Part B since it’s the lowest percentage complete in my personal spreadsheet list today.
Okay noticed something in the first batch… The use of “or” was incorrectly done.
The one indexer used or 3 times in between the surname for the same person (they put 3 different variations of the surname) but there was only one time the surname appeared on the image. “Or” is only to be used if there’s more than one time the surname is on the image and it’s spelled differently. If you can’t read the writing then use ? or * not “Or”.
If a father’s name is not on the image you can’t index the surname from the child or the siblings that were present at the death. You’re assuming that is the father’s surname. What if that child went by the mother’s surname? You don’t know cause the information is not on the image. That’s up to the researcher to “research” and find out. We’re there as indexers to transcribe the information on the image only.
Also make sure and read the wording around the person’s name that is present at the death. I see indexers putting the brother / son / grandfather’s names in the father’s name fields all the time. That’s not the correct information and should not be indexed.
With the death records when there’s an individual and they have say “Smith otherwise Larson” after the given name it’s not indexed as “Smith Larson” unless there’s some indication that Smith is the maiden name and Larson is the married name. It should be indexed as “Smith or Larson”. On these records most of the times it’s indicating an alias, also known as or AKA. Now if the individual was female (which in most of these cases I’m seeing they’re not) and the father’s name was present or sometimes the spouse’s name, then you can maybe determine that the name’s are maiden / married names.
Otherwise the indexers are doing quite well on the project compared to the previous Part A where we saw continual problems with the page number and record number.
After I wrote that I noticed something on the next batch… always check the column labelled “Signature, Qualification and Residence of Informant.” in that column you can usually find the name of the mother, father or spouse listed. This indexer missed the mother’s name there.
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