US—City and Business Directories, 1749–1990 [Part C] [M346-P55] individuals names at a business
US—City and Business Directories, 1749–1990 [Part C] [M346-P55] businesses have names of individuals. example, the Post Offfice lists the Postmaster and the Chief Inspector. Should these names be indexed?
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Yes, the project instructions under What to Remember About This Project:
- Index names of employers and employees. When indexing business names, index the names of individuals only. For example, "The Ad Book" would not be indexed, but "Barner Kehlenbeck Wines and Liquors" should be indexed. In this case, you would create 2 entries: one for Barner (surname) and another for Kehlenbeck (surname). Do not index occupations or terms such as "banker," "policeman," "M.D.," or similar terms.
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That bullet says:
Mark all other images, including full pages of advertisements, county and city histories, lists of elected officials, tables of contents, maps, city and county government officials lists, colonial wills, biographies, military histories, solider lists, family histories, historical essays and voter and census records, in Step 1: Images as No, No Extractable Dat Postmasters are not elected officials and this is not a list.
This was the postmaster and clerks of the local post office in an alphabetical list - not an IMAGE of a list of elected officials which is found either in the front of or appendix of the directories.
These were employees and the Post Office was their employer. They are not elected officials.
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Then it needs to be in the instructions that ANY name of an official is not indexed. Not just an instruction that an image with a list of officials is marked NED.
So, if
Young, John (Pauline) res. 12 N Main, City of Portland, Mayor is a listing he and Pauline don't get an entry?
I doubt that.
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