Business Directories

karenjobrinkerhoff1

When recording these entries the business they work for is often listed. My experiences is that these businesses are also listed (alphabetically) in the same directory. k Should I index these business names along with this employee's record in separate entries? Example: Hardman, Mary J seamstress Elias and Sons

I know Elias and Sons are listed in this directory back in the E's. Should I indext Mary Hardman's information then create a new entry for the surname Elias?

Melissa S Himes

Regarding the duplicate entries...They don't want two exact names to be listed twice on the same image. The goal is to get researchers to the images. Perhaps whomever these are being indexed for has a search engine designed to use occupation/place of employment as a delimiter.

Mirevo

Hello Karen,

Your question: Should I index these business names along with this employee's record in separate entries?

Yes, we would index names of staff of a company and the name of the owner of the company if it shows on the company's names once in the actual directory you are indexing.

And if they show up again in another batch we we would index them again only once.

Mirevo

Great question,

Can you please post the Share Batch code?.

Melissa S Himes

Yes, you index the employers that are on your image, without regard to the other images in the directory.

karenjobrinkerhoff1

Can you show me where in the instxns it says to do this? I understand making 2 separate entries for a business such as "Barnes & Cohen, brewers" but not as employers to "Caldwell Mary, typist, emp Barnes & Cohen". If Barnes and Cohen have 100 employees they would create 200 new entries, one for each employee. Strange to do that if they don't want two exact names to be listed twice i.e. there may be 5 John M Smith's but we're instructed to list the name only once if they're all identical.

genthusiast

I think this one (from the Project Instructions) may be what you are looking for:

• 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.

Maybe it's so a researcher can filter by employer when searching the completed index?

karenjobrinkerhoff1

I read those instxns but took them to mean the initial indexed names, not addt'l company names within the entry. Barner and Kehlenbeck would be indexed many hundreds of times of they were a large company in addition to being indexed every time their ad shows up on a page. Thank you for your patience with me on this!