List of Names - to index or not?
I've just joined the world of indexing and loving it. However, I'm confused. This list of names is in my indexing batch (https://www.familysearch.org/indexing/batch/11a140ac-6662-4be1-9297-ddb661281af1). I don't see what good it would do to index them, especially with no Church or dates included. Can anyone confirm that I should omit them? Thanks.
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Hello Kathy,
Welcome to Indexing, thank you for sharing the batch ID.
The Project instructions indicates:
- Index all birth, baptism, christening, marriage, death, and burial records. Mark all other images, including accounts, communion and member rolls, military records, session minutes, confirmations, and churchings, in Step 1: Images as No, No Extractable Data.
This image is not in the category of the records mentioned above to be indexed. We would mark it as No Extractable Data
Thank you for consulting.
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In Step 1, if you click the purple circle for the Field Help, you see:
Review the project instructions to determine if this image should be indexed and choose one of the available options.
- If this image shows the type of records indexed in this project, leave the answer as Yes.
- If the image does not have the type of information indexed in this project or if all the names on the image are completely unreadable due to poor image quality, select No, No Extractable Data.
The Project Instructions say: Index all birth, baptism, christening, marriage, death, and burial records. Also: Some images in this project lack column headings. If a document does not show column headings, check the column headings on the previous or next image to see what information each column contains.
I can't see reference images for your batch. It is possible that if you could see column headings on a previous image, that you could identify these as one of the 6 types of records we are asked to index.
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