re Indexing/Reviewing US Military Muster Rolls

maryellenstevensbarnes1

I'm reviewing https://www.familysearch.org/indexing/batch/6d8cac2b-0dc3-4f9b-8f95-5ef2fd393ef8 M3KZ-PMS - the indexer blanked the day, month & year - Using reference pages I found a handwritten date including the year 1918 on both "sides" of my batch --- Am I safe to put in the year only as 1918? Thanks Mary😎

John Empoliti

@maryellenstevensbarnes1 , you're welcome.

If you have a Windows computer, there is a built-in app/program called the Snipping Tool. Using the shortcut Windows logo key + Shift + S, you can invoke it. Then, with your left mouse button pressed, you drag a rectangle over the area you want to "snip." When you release, the snip goes to the clipboard. You can right-click and paste it into a comment. I believe that a Mac has a similar capability - you can probably find out online. It's a little trickier if you want to annotate the snip before you paste it.

John Empoliti

Hi, @maryellenstevensbarnes1 Interesting situation.

Here are the tops of reference image -1, the batch image, and the reference image +1. Each image is a roll or roster for separate months - maybe consecutive, maybe not - for Chauffeur Company #24. The dates on each refer to the specific image and not to the others because we cannot connect them chronologically. The dates on the two months bracketing your batch image are not even in chronological order, and there is no month between April and March. Your batch is not a continuation or start of either one. We don't know what these dates/notations refer to and whether your batch's location relative to them is a mistake and it actually has no specific date connection to the adjacent reference images. Maybe it is the December 1917 or January 1919 roll or roster. In my opinion, we have no way of knowing even the year of your batch image from the available contextual information. So, I would blank all date components of the Military date, even the year as the Indexer did, and let the Researchers draw their conclusions. Good luck. These are enjoyable to work on, and most are not this iffy.

maryellenstevensbarnes1

@John Empoliti Thanks - these are exactly what I saw -- I don't know how to do screen shots😎

Audrey Lea Anderson

Does anyone know when the next US Military Muster Rolls will be out for Indexing? 1916-1933 Part O is the last one I see, which is almost finished with reviewing.

Colin Yamamoto_1

@Audrey Lea Anderson They are only given one at a time. After this one is completely finished, it then takes a couple days until it loads the other one.

Audrey Lea Anderson

Thank you for your answer.

Audrey Lea Anderson

Thank you Colin Yamamoto for your response. Sorry my posting back to you is late. Your answer was very helpful.