1860 Federal Census needs to be reindexed.
I hope you are all well and safe. I am inquiring about the 1860 Federal Census for Town of Maine, Broome, New York. Page after page is marked as illegible but it is perfectly readable. ??? Can you send it to be reindexed? That's all I needed. Thank you.
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I have similar problem for Ohio, Mercer County, Franklin Township. Manually I found pages but they cannot be found on any search. All the pages and lines of the page are readable when viewing the image but the details all have ILLEGIBLE. However, they are not illegible. How can I index the page so I can save the files top the family I'm researching?
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@KDCMGY, you cannot index the image, but you can attach it as a source to your family members. There are several ways to do it; the two most straightforward ones for this specific situation (single image with multiple family members, none of them available as index entries) are to use the Source Box button on the image, or to use the Create Source button in your Source Box.
To use the Source Box button on the image, I suggest first writing a transcription or summary in your favorite text editor. This is because clicking Source Box at the top right of the image and selecting Add to My Source Box results in an unmovable obscuring-type popup, with fields for the source title and for notes (description).
To use your source box to create the citation, I suggest opening the image in one tab, clicking your name/icon at the top right of that page, then right-clicking (or your OS's equivalent) on Source Box to open it in another tab. In that new tab, click Create Source, referring back to the image in the other tab for the URL and other details.
Once the citation is in your Source Box, you can attach it to the relevant profiles either from the Sources tabs of the individual profiles, or from the "central" version of your Source Box (that is, the version reached by clicking your name at the top right, as in the second procedure outlined above). If it's only two or three people, then navigating to each profile's Sources tab and clicking Add Source -- Attach From Source Box is probably simple enough, but if it's a large family, I suggest using the other "direction". Have the details page for one of the profiles open in one tab, where you can use the Family Members section to copy each profile's ID, then use Attach - By ID in your Source Box (open in another tab) to attach the citation.
Since you'll be attaching the same citation to every family member, use a generic title, such as "Smith family in 1860 U.S. Census, Ohio, Mercer County, Franklin Township".
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