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Pennyrose
Pennyrose ✭
January 18 edited January 18 in Indexing

I have been reviewing these records and found 2 instructions that contradict each other. One says when there is an overlay. index that one but not do the one under it. The other one says to index both - the one behind the overlay, as much information as possible. What do you understand this to be? thank you

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  • MinnWisRoots
    MinnWisRoots ✭✭✭
    January 18

    See, https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/137252/discrepancy-in-the-project-instructions-for-us-pennsylvania-western-district-naturalizations-1820#latest

    Melissa S Himes has posted about several of these trying to get some of the discrepancies straightened out. NOTE: The post is not answers, but questions for a moderator.

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  • Melissa S Himes
    Melissa S Himes ✭✭✭✭✭
    January 19

    This morning I see that they have changed the reviewer instruction:

    • If the document behind an overlay is a record that should be indexed in this project, do not index the information on the partially-covered document.

    The other minor discrepancies have not been changed (i.e., errors on the examples like "He" = male on some examples and not others. Based on the timing of these documents, marriage should also indicate that when one has a wife, the petitioner is a male. )

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