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Symbol After Name on Danish Death Records?These symbols appear after some names on the record. Does anyone know what they mean? https://www.f…
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Wrong indexingWhat can I do as I get all the time wrong indexed people and places? Why cant people who index get …
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When doing city directories, Where do we put the advertisers' names?Beginning of batch or end?
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can we rearrange fields like in the original indexingIs there a way to rearrange fields in documents that have lots of fields that have no content
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Middlesex records, 19th CI am in Middlesex parish records. The form on the pages lists a date and a series of names with no…
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What does the given name H'y stand for?I type it so often and wonder what name it is abbreviated for. I've looked places for answers but…
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Should apostrophes be included in surnames such as O'Hara, or a Given Name such as Mich'l?I have been indexing such names with the apostrophe included to exactly duplicate what the record s…
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Indexing parish records from 1883I am indexing marriage records from a UK parish in 1883. There are 2 records per image. I do not …
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Reviewing US--City directories page 17The indexer skipped all names that were two last names connected by and. My understanding is that e…
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When reviewing excess indexed recordsAs an example with the Liberia census records the indexed record contains more entries than the ori…
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