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What is meant by Entry and Image?

Sandra Castille
Sandra Castille ✭
January 28, 2022 edited August 18, 2024 in Get Involved/Indexing

What do these two terms mean on the data entry grid?

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  • John Empoliti
    John Empoliti ✭✭✭✭✭
    January 28, 2022 edited January 28, 2022

    Hi Sandra

    Check out this Glossary on Indexing terms:

    https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/is-there-an-indexing-glossary

    Bottom line - the image is a picture of a document that Indexers examine to extract info (into fields - e.g. name, birthdate, etc) from records about individuals and type that info into fields in an entry. So an entry is a digitized version of a record, extracted from an image.

    The term “field” is used to describe the components of a “record” (on the image) and of an entry. On an “entry” a field is a named box on a form into which you type info extracted from the image (e.g. age). On a “record” it is the written version of that information (e.g. age) found on the image.

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