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  US, New York—Eastern District—Naturalization Records, 1891–1958 [Part G] [MQF8-YBN]

  The 2 images in this batch are duplicates. In image 1 I didn't think the first doc. should be index…

  Answered Lisa Kay Horlacher 51 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by erutherford March 18
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  In City Directories it may list several variations of the Surname. Should the entire list of people

  be indexed with all the the surnames included or do you just list the first surname for each indivi…

  Answered ✓ dianacarolenelson 72 views 1 comment 1 point Most recent by barbaragailsmith1 March 18
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  What do you do when half the image is unreadable but the other half is readable?

  Hello, I am indexing US Directories. Many of the batches that I have received are two pages, with o…

  Answered Marissah Whitney Bentke 161 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Julia Kapalko Inselman March 18
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  I am indexing city directories and several names were skipped. How do I add them?

  How do I add skipped names without retyping everything? How can I add and reorder number order?

  Answered S Gessel1 51 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by erutherford March 17
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  I am indexing us city directories. It is supposed to be up to 250 entries but it is going to be mo

  be more like 400. I'm okay with that but will the directory go away when I get to 250 and leave th…

  Answered Edna Gae Mason 71 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by barbaragailsmith1 March 15
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  How do you know what type the entry is?

  How do you know what type of entry to put when indexing.

  Question Warren, Gregory Austin 31 views 0 comments 0 points Started by Warren, Gregory Austin March 15
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  US City Directories

  I am reviewing uS City Directories. The indexer indexed several of the reference pages. Do I dele…

  Answered ✓ Karen Dattage Hepworth 131 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by barbaragailsmith1 March 15
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  index city directories rem'd

  do you index the name that has --rem'd to other city here is the code for the record US—City Direc…

  Answered RBagley4 71 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by RBagley4 March 13
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  Indexing a "Jr"

  When indexing large batches (City Directory), if (2) exact names come up but one is a Jr (Junior) I…

  Answered ✓ GregSchultz31 921 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by erutherford March 13
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  Indexing a naturalization document

  I have a two page naturalization document. I hit the split screen so both page are showing and ta…

  Answered vaughnwilson1 51 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by erutherford March 13