1950 census header review - New Mexico CHANGED this afternoon
Since New Mexico has been available to review, the header data has been pretty consistent with other states from the comments and questions I've seen here. This afternoon I came back to work on the headers after a couple of hours off. Now, none of the data on the left side of the header is being downloaded to the index. A quick check seemed to indicate that this hasn't happened to other states.
I have reported it via the feedback button but thought I'd mention it here. Here's what I said there:
Header Review for New Mexico no longer has pulled any data for the left side of the page. Perhaps this change is part of programming changes to eliminate the bad data that had been appearing in the hotel sections. (A great idea!) However, fields A through D were usually correct up until now. Having to type in State, County, Incorporated Place and E.D. Number for each header now is rather time consuming and likely to produce errors since the tab key does not present them in the same order as they appear on the image.
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I've been getting the same thing in New Mexico and in Oregon. Have also sent in feedback.
Will @Janell Vasquez or another Moderator please pass on to tech.
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Thank you for reporting the issue in Feedback. It has gone to the correct place. Keep up the great work!
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Same with Arizona...
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I just reread the field notes for Header Review and discovered that we are to "verify" (meaning correct to match) the State and County as they were written. That means that all the headers with 'N. Mex.' were supposed to be typed that way if the index missed them?! Sorry! I've been typing 'New Mexico' no matter how it's written on the page. And I will probably continue doing that because there are just too many blank header sections to fiddle with that kind of trivia unless told otherwise--especially if we have to add the periods too. Luckily Albuquerque is usually spelled out, so I can keep my rhythm doing it the same way each time.
And what about dates in the header? Instructions are to "verify in the order it was written." I'm not even sure what that means. No one was writing the date in the European order back then in the US, so do the instructions mean in the format, such as 5/1/50 vs May 1? If so, then I'm going to be unhappy working on all the pages where the indexing is so mangled that we have to retype the entire date. I'm begging someone to please tell me we can use a standardized April 1 or Apr 1 rather than Apr 1st as it was written. And, also may we type May 7 if the date has been written 5/7 and indexed 57. Throwing in slashes is really going to slow me down.
Another question. Why am I ratting myself out?
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Also in the Header Review field helps:
Note: Sometimes the computer will expand, correct, or add a place name based on census metadata. You do not need to edit these changes unless you can tell from the image that they are incorrect.
Which means you can leave "N. Mex." as "New Mexico" since the AI program fixed it. 😀
As for the dates, until a Mod(erator) tells us differently, it should match "what is written" and that does not include "1950" for the sheet started date unless it was written as well.
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