Petition for Naturalization Place
I've entered the place of event exactly as it appears, stamped in red ink, on the document as "Western Division, Western District Of Missouri, United States Of America". It seems that it was shown on an example that way at one time. what say you?
I neglected to add "answere accepted" a couple of times. is there a way to correct that?
A comment: many times, in reviewing, I find evidence that the indexer could have found answers under the purple ?, or under the instructions icon.
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Generally on these nats, you would not index: Western Division, Western District Of Missouri, United States Of America. Like the example, we would index Missouri, United States. I suppose you could index Western District, Missouri, United States (if it is Part B). But I wouldn't index Western Division.
In Part B of the Missouri Nats, on the Declarations they show to index St Louis, Eastern District, Missouri, United States of America.
However, the field help on Part E of the Missouri Nats actually says: Do not index street names, addresses, hospitals, or localities smaller than a town or city. Do not index the district as part of the event place.
Then when you look at the New York Nats, we go back to indexing the Districts.
The same craziness is happening with the Record Number on Oaths. Now there is a project showing to use the petition number for the oath because they happened to find an example with a petition number stamped on the back of the petition. (That in itself is an anomoly).
My greatest hope is that someday there will be consistency on how to index these naturalizations since they are Federal Documents and standardized since 1906. Consistency with the instructions will lead to less questions and probably fewer reviews.
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On the Accepted Answer question (I think you mean on this platform you have not accepted answers - nothing to do with the indexing side of things, right?).
It appears that if you choose Yes on a comment, it becomes an "accepted answer". I hope they get rid of that in the next version of this platform scheduled for release on Nov 1. Sometimes accepted answers are not correct answers and there doesn't seem to be a way to change the their acceptance when a better, or more correct, answer is later presented.
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Please provide the URL link to the batch or post the share batch code of the project where your question refers to.
It looks like you have submitted the bath, once it is gone there is no way you can retrieve it to make corrections, unless it is in your list of batches.
Yes, Field helps with he purple circles on the upper right corner of every entry, Project instructions, and it examples images on how to index these documents indicates how we should index them.
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Thanks Melissa
Should I take my own advise? I thought one shoe fit all feet, like purple question marks and one answer fits all. Part B vs E Anyway, this one is 1843–1991 [Part E][M3F8-ZJW]. So you larned me somthin nu. jim
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Yes, Sir. You have to read these every time you switch parts on the same project. I am basically having to review the examples every time I pull up a project. So, I'm trying to only do one Nat project at time - or one Obit project, since there are those slight variations in the instructions.
I can't see the batch, expect you already submitted it. But, as long as we keep following the bouncing ball on the examples, the instructions, and the field helps, we should be okay!
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