Just going through some batches in my Arbitration Review that I worked on yesterday. Was indexing the Pennsylvania Philadelphia Passenger List project mostly. Here’s some of the points that I had to mark for review because the arbitrator doesn’t know the rules.
- This project is index all passengers, crew, immigration officers, inspection officers.... anyone who belongs to the ship. That means when an inspection officer signs his name at the bottom or the master of the ship signs at the top or the bottom of the document we index their names as well. They don't have to be in the passenger list directly. The only thing we've been told not to index for names on this project is any names of family members who are contacts. Same batch as #2 point photos of the batch in arb review can be seen below.
- Where are some of you arbitrators (and probably indexers) taking the arrival year from?
- Don't take it from the next / previous images
- Don't take it from the departure date
- If no arrival date at the top then use immigration dates with the inspection officers signature usually at the bottom of the list of names since they do the inspection the day that the ship arrives.
This batch had no date on it what so ever but the Arbitrator decided it was 1884. - Gender – Even I mess up occasionally. Always check the whole image for the gender column. This batch I totally missed the gender column and deserved the 76% I got on it. Then on the next batch I checked the arbitrator added in all the F’s and M’s that were written beside given names but there was nothing on the image saying what those F’s and M’s were. Arbitrator was therefore assuming that they stood for Female and Male. DONT ASSUME. If there’s no column stating gender then don’t index it. Or it doesn’t say Female or Male directly then don’t index it.
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