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Submitting a batchI have finished a page of 6 entries and want to submit. it wont allow that as it says 6/7 have been…
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How to start a projectIn 2020, the archives of Canton Valais in Switzerland made available its collection of nineteenth c…
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Are you allowed to let others view your batch if you are a reviewer?I was wondering if I could share a review batch I was working on. I have only shared indexing batc…
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Help Indexing St George's WardThis discussion was created from comments split from: Canada, Ontario—Tax Assessment Records, 1834–…
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reporting back to original transcriberIs there any way that original transcribers can have errors pointed out? I know that I have tried u…
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What do I put if the start of the name has St. in it?https://www.familysearch.org/indexing/batch/2ef5ced5-38a7-42cf-8248-4a774584b30d
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Can not read what note says on document. Need help reading what it says.Hi, I needed help to figure out what this note says on this document. I can't figure out if this pe…
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Child baptism and surnameSome records of a child baptism list only the given name(s) and omit the surname. To fill in the ch…
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What do I type for the sir-name if what is written looks like an abbreviation?I was indexing a tax form from 1883 in Canada and there seemed to be some shorthand words like Wm a…
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What do you do when a parent's gender is ambiguous?I'm indexing South African records with a "Parent name" column, but separate fields for F…
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