When reviewing indexing and there's no date on the page but is when indexed.
I'm reviewing some indexing and when indexed a date was put in but on the page that I'm reviewing there's no date showing. I'm thinking it was a page continued from another that a person did in order when indexing. Help, do I leave the date or delete it.
https://www.familysearch.org/indexing/batch/19801634-548e-40be-8e4a-946c872b5616
Best Answer
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In this project yes we are allowed to get dates from previous images.
Field Help, Military Year, 3rd bullet point : " If a year is not given, it may have been recorded on a previous image."
You can view multiple images while you index. The additional images are reference images and can help you with your work. This feature is essential if you are indexing a record that continues from one image to the next, or if you are struggling to read difficult handwriting.
Steps
- Click the 4th icon in the small, vertical toolbar to the left of the screen.
- You can also click Data Entry in the top menu, and then click Show Reference Images.
- The reference image opens on the right side of the image area. Click the thumbnail of the image you want to view.
- Adjust the size and contrast of the reference image to find the information you need.
- You can continue indexing while viewing both images at the same time.
1 - Click the 4th icon in the small, vertical toolbar to the left of the screen.
Answers
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To receive an accurate answer, you need to share the batch code. That is the sequence of letters and numbers in the brackets after the project title. (located above the red line).
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When you need help with a batch, you can share it with another indexer or helper. This person can then see details of the batch and give you an accurate answer for your question.
Steps
- Just above the toolbar, click Help.
- On the drop-down menu, click Share Batch.
- The Share Batch window opens, giving you two options:
- Copy the batch link, and paste it in an email to the helper or post it on the Share Batch, Etc. page on Facebook. The helper can click the link and go directly to the batch.
- Share the batch code so the helper can enter it in the web indexing tool and open the batch.
- A second way to find the batch code is by clicking Batch, then About Batch. The Batch ID is the same as the code.
Please share your batch code of the project you are referring to.
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Yes,
The indexer has taken the date from the previous page and applied it to the records you are reviewing. You can leave them there.
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We are allowed to capture the Year according to those instructions. But, it does not say we can can capture the month or day. Neither the month or day field help says to do a "look-back".
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I agree with Melissa’s interpretation of the instructions.
But some of us, including Melissa I think, wonder why the Project Managers want/allow the Indexer to “look back” for the Military Year but not for the Month and Day. The early Parts of this Project, which has extended over years now, did allow doing that. Then the instructions changed a few Parts ago. The current instructions cause confusion like we see in this batch, and the new logic escapes me.
As a Reviewer, for the sake of moving the Project along by avoiding a second review, I might OK a batch with the “correct” but “illegitimate” values for the Military Day and Month like Mirevo suggests. But why cause this confusion, hesitancy and these conflicting thoughts in the first place? It's either OK to look outside the batch for a date or it isn't. Why for one date component and not the others? Why is it OK to look back for the heading of a column but not for only some parts of a date. I don't get it. Except for these incongruencies this is a great project to work on even for new Indexers.
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