US—Five Civilized Tribes Enrollment Records, 1898–1914 [Part A]
@erutherford and @Maile L I am reviewing US—Five Civilized Tribes Enrollment Records, 1898–1914 [Part A] and find that almost every marriage record, especially those that are handwritten is marked as NNED or No, No Extractable Data. I wonder if other reviewers are having the same experience? And possibly passing them along as NNED? Thus missing all these records for indexing purposes.
PI state that marriage records are to be indexed - in the case of handwritten notes (often only affidavits) and every one I've seen and read do include the marriage date and recording date. Understandably, there is no example because All handwritten records need to be read thoroughly and carefully so indexers know what kind of record they're looking at.
Is there some way to go thru the entire project to double-check for hand-written records? It seems that many indexers are trying to go too fast without reading PI and without understanding these old records -- very few typewriters on the reservations in 1902😎
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@maryellenstevensbarnes1, this probably goes back to either people not reading the PI or not caring. The overwhelming majority of records that I've worked on in this project are handwritten. I've seen the NNED on things that clearly need to be indexed on several projects as of late.
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If everything is the same as it used to be, all records marked NNED are reviewed by ROC (Remote Operations Center) teams. If they are supposed to get indexed, they index them or send them back out for indexing.
But, if there is no name on a record - just a recording date and a marriage date, then I would mark them NNED too. Are they cover sheets saying it is a true copy of the license information or something else?
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They are not cover sheets, some are just handwritten notes or affidavits - not on an "official" form, but signed by individual tribal members something like this " I am Ned Sam of the Choctaw tribe by birth who states that I helped fill out the paper for John Doe, a non-tribal member and Annie Jones a Choctaw by birth, who were married on 1 Sep 1902" then signed Ned Sam on Dec 16 1904. There is usually 2 "witnesses" who sign. Given the project dates of 1898-1914, I believe these should be considered authentic and should be indexed.
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