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Jerry Hill
Jerry Hill ✭✭✭
January 13, 2023 edited August 16, 2024 in Get Involved/Indexing

Where do I sign up for hazardous duty pay?

I just finished a batch -- one image, 2 pages, hand-written in tiny script in highly abbreviated early 18th century Spanish. At first glance, I thought it had 28 records. After I got into it, I found 80 records -- a lot of people who had died over a 2 week period. There were at least 3 husband-wife pairs and about the same number of parent-child pairs. The poor parish priest trying to record all this often resorted to recording multiple deaths -- as many as 8 -- in one entry. The stress wore me out. I had to take a break.

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  • erutherford
    erutherford ✭✭✭✭✭
    January 13, 2023 edited January 13, 2023

    Eighty's nothing. The City Directories project routinely had 200-300+ entries per batch.

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  • Jerry Hill
    Jerry Hill ✭✭✭
    January 14, 2023

    Yeah, well it wasn't just the numbers, but more the the tiny handwriting, the multiple records run together, and the custom of the priests to use all kinds of abbreviations.

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  • Melissa S Himes
    Melissa S Himes ✭✭✭✭✭
    January 14, 2023

    I was thinking the same, @Jerry Hill - the typed City Directories were a breeze compared to even 10 records on those 18th century Spanish priests manuscripts. 80 records is a huge challenge! Kudos on sticking with the mission!

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