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Passenger List surprise in Indexing Instructions sample

withthecia
withthecia ✭
March 30 edited March 30 in Indexing

In the past I have run into passenger list records that assign the embarkation location/date for everyone list, whether they got on at the beginning of the ship's voyage or boarded along the way. I always thought this was an error that was made in haste. However, today, in my first attempt at indexing, I discovered the following Indexing instruction sample for an Australian passenger list 1891- that ignores the different embarkation points listed in the column to the left of the passenger name. Is this the correct way to think of a passenger and should we be indexing this way?

Whoops! The link keeps taking me to another page of instructions, so I'll have to copy and paste

passenger list instruction sample.PNG


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  • withthecia
    withthecia ✭
    March 30 edited March 30

    This is the passenger list with embarkation places on the left. The sample was with the other one.

    passenger list instruction sample 2.PNG


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  • barbaragailsmith1
    barbaragailsmith1 ✭✭✭
    March 30

    I think they want the place where the ship originally embarked from, not the stops along the way where different individuals boarded.

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