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Ross Tucker
Ross Tucker ✭
April 24, 2022 edited April 10 in Get Involved/Indexing

Hi, I have been using the Get Involved app and have been helping others learn how to use it. I am wondering what I should do when the highlighting is incorrect (missing part of the name, or covering part of another name, for example), but the app's suggestion of the name is correct. Should I just mark it as incorrect highlighting, or should I mark it as correct if the suggestion is inaccurate, except for the highlighting that covers part of another name or is missing part of the name? For example, there may a suggestion for "Mary" and "Smith" where the whole name is Mary Smith but the highlighting covers "Ma" first for one suggestion and then "ry Smith" for the next suggestion. Should I mark this as incorrect highlighting, to help correct the highlighting feature, even though the name suggestions are correct?

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  • sgcartwright
    sgcartwright ✭
    April 25, 2022

    In my experience working with the 1950 U.S. Census, checking the computerized indexing, it seems the highlighting tends to be a general area on the form, not necessarily covering the actual text in question. There is a general area highlighted for surnames and another for first names. The handwriting does not necessarily fit within the highlighted areas. I think the highlighting is not an issue in this situation. Where I have marked incorrect highlighting is typically where there are ditto marks for a surname or highlighting outside the areas that should be indexed (for example - the column headings).

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  • Ross Tucker
    Ross Tucker ✭
    April 26, 2022

    Finally found an answer to the question: https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-review-names-when-i-see-a-problem-with-the-highlight

    "The goal with reviewing is to make sure that the computer captured the right information, whether or not the highlights cover the words exactly. The highlight could be off either vertically or horizontally, but as long as you can tell that the right words were indexed, a misplaced highlight is not a serious issue.

    For example, the computer often highlights only a portion of a person's first and middle name. When this happens, both names should still be entered into the Given Name field."

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