US, Missouri, Various Counties— Obituaries, 1880–1990 [M36M-1HK]- reviewing this batch...
While reviewing this batch, I found out that some pieces of information (small extracts of newspapers) are NOT connected with the deceased person (the same last name, but different places and no close relationships).
Should I delete this information from the batch or not ? I reread the project instruction and realized that I could not include those people using category "other" to the batch of the main deceased person...
I need advice from the obituary experts.
Larisa V.
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Thanks for sharing your batch. I have been indexing obits since 2014 and love to work on them. This is an almost perfectly indexed batch. The individual only missed a couple of items. The newspaper clippings are all for other deceased folks as the indexer correctly entered then, followed by every name listed in the individual obituaries. There are 4 obituaries indexed and 1 birthday announcement which was ignored as per the instructions.
A few other things that I noticed.
On the Entry 1, the indexer should have left place of death blank. We don't use the name of hospitals to index this field.
On Entry 5, 6, the indexer was correct and the surnames should not be indexed. We only index the surname when it is written with the name (don't assume surnames from others mentioned in the document). It isn't necessary to add Entry 7, Wilma and Wilma Lea are the same daughter who died in infancy. Her most complete name is already indexed on Entry 5.
On Entry 10, 16, and 24, Jr is not indexed with the given or the surname. It is ignored since there is no title/terms or suffix fields.
On Entry 26, only Centerville would be indexed as the birth place. Missouri is not listed there. The birth year is 1925. On Entry 27 and 28, the parents should be indexed as parents and not mother and father or male and female. We can't determine gender from names. The same applies to all of those children. There are no gender identifiers for them, so the sex is blank and the relationship is child.
On Entry 41, the death place is Salem.
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Good afternoon, dear Melissa S. Himes,
I appreciate your help and explanations- they are very helpful.
But I still am not sure that entry 25, 26-39 and 41-42 are connected with the family in the entry 1: yes, they have the same last name, they are from Missouri, but there is NO evidence they are close relatives and should be in the same batch as the first person (her obituary does not mention any of them).
Nevertheless, if it is a batch of various counties of Missouri, maybe I should not think about those details?
The last point regarding the batch: could you confirm that year in the entry 40 & 42 is the same- 1954, not 1934? For me, the numbers are not clear...
Thank you for your help again.
Best regards,
Larisa V.
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I am concerned about your post: "But I still am not sure that entry 25, 26-39 and 41-42 are connected with the family in the entry 1: yes, they have the same last name, they are from Missouri, but there is NO evidence they are close relatives and should be in the same batch as the first person (her obituary does not mention any of them)."
Just to be more clear - The person on Entry 1 has nothing to do with any of the indexed except those names that are in her obituary (Entry 1 through 23). Entry 24 begins the obituary of the next person. It makes no difference whether they are related or not. You may find an image that have obituaries of many unrelated families.
The obituaries for 40 and 42 are from 1954. Entries 26 and 27 cannot be identified as male or female, so the sex field is blank and the relationship is parent.
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Thank you so much! It was a great pleasure to read your very valuable replies. I see you are really an expert in this field! I started indexing and then reviewing in 2009 and worked with projects from Russia; later I tried to index batches in English, obituaries are not very familiar for me...I made all needed changes in the batch and sent it for reviewing. I still believe it is better to check twice than to do wrong things in a new type of projects.
Warm regards,
Larisa V.
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Just a suggestion, but, it is also better to index projects before reviewing them. In the past, FamilySearch has reported that reviewers who index projects first make far fewer errors than those who jump in and just start to review them. The brain actually functions differently when one is indexing as compared to when one is proofreading or reviewing. In these batches that have a lot of information to be indexed, it is very likely that the first reviewer may be the only reviewer, so it is important to get them right and ask questions! This was a review batch. Glad to be able to have worked together to get it right!
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Good suggestion, thank you very much!
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