US, Missouri, Various Counties— Obituaries, 1880–1990[M3DB-1NM]
I am wondered how to index multiple documents. IE. what order should I index multiple documents, left to right or up and down columns. As I review I have seen people do it both ways. I have also seen people mentioned who have preceded in death the main person they have then listed them as a new deceased person. It was very confusing. Should I have deleted these extra deceased entries?
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Hi Stacy Lynn! The most important question is whether you should have deleted the extra deceased entries when someone indexed a person mentioned in the obituary as having died prior to the deceased. Yes, you should have deleted the extra deceased entries. People mentioned as having preceded the deceased in death, do not get a deceased entry too.
This is in the project instructions under What To Remember About This Project:
- Do not create additional deceased records for deceased relatives. Only the deceased for which the obituary is about should be indexed using the Deceased entry type. All other relatives, surviving or deceased, should be indexed using the Other entry type.
The order doesn't really matter on these images. However, it is best to index them top to bottom and left to right as if reading columns in a newspaper. As reviewers it does become somewhat of a puzzle to see which direction the indexer chose. But, as long as all the obits and all the names in them are indexed together, then order is not a problem.
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