Name Review comments &TIPS:
FWIW: After reviewing several hundred names, and now deciding to stop until a few review items have been fixed or updated; I'll share these items which may help someone else.
>>Remember the 'auto indexing' does/can NOT read the 'letters', it only tries to identify the Whole word from a programmed list. (My estimate is 80-90% correct). AI doesn't seem to see the difference between Delores & Deborah, e.g. BUT, it often read it better than I could.
>>To me it seems easier to narrow the image size to only include the "Name" column; - BUT wide enough to see the (often used) "Not a Person" Icon (to minimize scrolling)
>>Viewing the person's birth country often helps in understanding/reading the name.
>>Searching for State AND Name will often result in different state. When reviewing Name AND State, it generally will BEGIN in the middle of the page (29 times out of 30)
>>"Jr." is sometimes 'missed' & there does not seem to be anyway to enter it.
>>I've found it easier to have the AI transcription box 'below' the written name. I then read the name BEFORE the transcript. Scrolling the page up or down will relocate the box above or below the name.
>>Obviously, comparing letters elsewhere on the page helps to read names easier.
>>It sure would help if a selection could be made to select a county or town, in addition to the State.
I hope this might help someone a bit.
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Indexing names, I'm finding lines that the last name has been missed. For Example: there are several family members in a household, then a person with a different last name in the same household. The indexing did not include the stranger's last name. Just included the stranger as another family member. How do I add the different last name to the stranger?
Hope that makes sense.
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Sometimes the issue with the missing surnames and missing generational identifiers can be corrected in the Family Review process - - as long as there are no missing fields in the record for the line (don't understand why that would happen, but it does!).
I choose to flag glaring errors in the name review process (especially due to mis-matched highlights skipping whole lines on the form), but now that I see many errors can be corrected during Family Review, I am not worried about the other errors as much.
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It APPEARS to me that much of the partial page indexing is causing most of the apparent missing (unindexed lines. It's quite easy to 'find' a page to work on, index two lines & then stop, get distracted or ??? . The page is then NOT completed & the computer will then assign it to someone else (who also may not finish it) so, we apparently, need to simply wait for computers to keep reassigning & eventually it will ALL be done, as computers never make mistakes.😊
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