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Rayleen H Barnes
Rayleen H Barnes ✭
October 22, 2021 in Indexing
https://www.familysearch.org/indexing/batch/b2d2fa22-b2e9-45df-8108-677e67b8df12

As I am reviewing many of the Naturalization records from Missouri, I am coming upon the situation where a small blank piece of paper that has been placed in the middle of the document. Should this document be indexed with as much information as possible, or should it be listed as no extractable data?

Thank you, Rayleen Barnes

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  • barbaragailsmith1
    barbaragailsmith1 ✭✭✭
    October 22, 2021 Answer ✓

    In the Project Instructions under General Indexing Guidelines, then Overlays, its says, "Do not try to index any information underneath the overlay that may be visible."

    These are different overlay instructions than what has been the case in the past. You can look at the next image in the reference images and perhaps see that the covered page is uncovered. If so, that would be indexed in a different batch. In any case, you would mark it No Extractable Data.

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  • Allison Lathrop
    Allison Lathrop ✭✭✭
    October 22, 2021 Answer ✓

    Make sure you index image 1 which is the Oath of Allegiance.

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  • Allison Lathrop
    Allison Lathrop ✭✭✭
    October 22, 2021

    One more point on records like these-we do not index information underneath or around the overlay. Be sure and use the Image reference to see if the underneath document will come soon. If so, this is one of the reasons why we should not be indexing it.

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