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Tom Gibson_1
Tom Gibson_1 ✭
April 12 in 1950 US Census

Very frustrating when the family grouping routine regularly gives the wrong number of families left to group and does not gracefully exit the page.

Also frustrating when a person is not included in a family group by default, the rest of the page no longer suggests family groups. One would think it would be easy to identify family groups by looking for the label "Head" throughout the scan data.

Want a way to return to a previous family in the event that data later on a page gives a clue to prior hard to read field.

The code fields for place of birth and income are almost always wrong. Takes a great deal of time to correct these entries. Understand the desire to have these fields indexed, but with the time it takes to correct almost all of them, the family review process will take more time than it should and delay the release of the index. (On code fields, one would think it would be best to just let the computer make a best guess and let people who need this level of data go to the original image and verify. Don't see the need for the extra work.

Can we figure out how to speed this up????

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  • Tom Gibson_1
    Tom Gibson_1 ✭
    April 12

    The routine to tie the entries at the end of a page to the beginning of the next page works well most of the time. There does not seem to be a routine to link entries at the beginning of a page (that has no Head entry) to the previous page.

    One would assume the incomplete first entries would be tied to the previous page with the end of page stitch routine, but since I am asked to group these first on page incomplete lines, one can never be certain.

    This process seems to be prone to many errors.

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  • ME Doran
    ME Doran mod
    April 16

    Please, use the Feedback option to report this it will then go directly to the Engineers.

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