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Janet Holdstock
Janet Holdstock ✭
March 19, 2022 edited August 16, 2024 in Get Involved/Indexing

US, Massachusetts—Boston Tax Records, 1822–1918 [Part N][M3GS-HT2]


I know we are not supposed to duplicate names if they are underneath each other BUT should I index a name if there are other names between the identical names?

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  • Ksalers
    Ksalers ✭✭✭
    March 19, 2022 edited March 19, 2022

    Only index the name 1 time. So if the name is mentioned 5 times in the batch, just index once.

    • Index each unique name. Some names may be duplicated. When names are exact duplicates, index only the first instance of the name listed. Skip the other exact duplicates and then index the next unique name. When the middle initials or the given names or surnames are spelled differently, please index these unique names.

    Because you are just indexing the name and the year for all of the records on this document it's only necessary to index once.

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  • Janet Holdstock
    Janet Holdstock ✭
    March 19, 2022

    Thank you

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