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Missouri and Kansas Nats Field Help for Record Number Incongruent with Examples

Melissa S Himes
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September 6, 2021 edited August 20, 2024 in Get Involved/Indexing

The Record Number Field Help on these Naturalization projects say:

Do not index the page number or petition number in this field.

But on the examples, the petition number is indexed.

US, Kansas—Naturalization Records, 1856–1991 [Part B][M3CH-H35]

How To Index a Petition of Naturalization - Form 1 (Petition Number is not indexed)

How to Index a Petition of Naturalization - Form 2 (Petition Number is indexed)

US, Missouri—Naturalization Records, 1843–1991 [Part A][M34F-ZJN]

How to Index a Petition for Citizenship (Petition Number is indexed).

The NY Nat project does not have this instruction in the field helps. In all the Naturalization projects I have previously worked on, there has never been an instruction like "Do not index the page number or petition number in this field".

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  • Dennis B Knox
    Dennis B Knox ✭✭
    September 6, 2021 edited September 6, 2021 Answer ✓

    US, Kansas—Naturalization Records, 1856–1991 [Part B][M3CH-H35]

    You indexed the records correctly. The number shown at the top right of the form is a record number and not a petition number.

    US, Missouri—Naturalization Records, 1843–1991 [Part A][M34F-ZJN]

    These are petition numbers and per the instructions should be marked blank.


    Thank you for your time and energy doing indexing we appreciate your help.

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  • Melissa S Himes
    Melissa S Himes ✭✭✭✭✭
    September 6, 2021 Answer ✓

    Also, how do these answers get accepted by anyone other than the poster? Because the above would not be my "accepted answer" or the BEST ANSWER. The moderators need to stop answering the question for the original poster "Did this answer the question?"

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  • Melissa S Himes
    Melissa S Himes ✭✭✭✭✭
    September 6, 2021 edited September 6, 2021

    @KnoxDennis7701 I did not index these. They are review batches. But, I have indexed or reviewed probably around 10k nats over the years. We have always indexed the number in the right hand corner of petitions, and the number on the left side of a declaration. Why would they suddenly have an instruction not to index petition numbers? IMHO, it is a problem with semantics and will lead to those numbers being marked blank, just as you mentioned in the Missouri Nat comment. Those numbers are indexed on the example for the Missouri Nats. Thus, the reason for my post. Maybe someone needs to pass this on for the field helps to be reviewed.

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  • mterry555
    mterry555 ✭
    September 6, 2021

    FYI--I'm working on US, Missouri—Naturalization Records, 1843–1991 [Part A]

    [M34P-XTL], record #5290 ... for one Wladyslaw Arczynski, however the Declaration of Intention in the batch is from record #5291 - for Hermann Klaus. Don't understand where to go from here.

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  • Melissa S Himes
    Melissa S Himes ✭✭✭✭✭
    September 6, 2021 edited September 6, 2021

    Hello @mterry555 Unfortunately with that batch code i am getting an error message that Access is Restricted. Perhaps someone else will be able to help you. I'll tag @Dellory Matthews for some help.

    In the meantime, have you possibly submitted that batch and are you new to web-indexing?

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