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If there is only a name and a date, Why should we have to index these?

Harmon, James Bartlett
Harmon, James Bartlett ✭✭
August 6, 2023 edited September 30, 2024 in Get Involved/Indexing

Example - Dutch Reformed batch [M3NM-9V9] This is a church membership list.

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  • Áine Ní Donnghaile
    Áine Ní Donnghaile ✭✭✭✭✭
    August 6, 2023

    If I was researching the people listed on that page, I would be very glad to learn where they lived and went to church in 1837.

    Consider it a substitute for a census, in a time when they are few censuses.

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  • Harmon, James Bartlett
    Harmon, James Bartlett ✭✭
    August 6, 2023

    I forgot. There are the ages of the people too. I have been doing these older ones because a lot of indexers don't.

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  • Áine Ní Donnghaile
    Áine Ní Donnghaile ✭✭✭✭✭
    August 6, 2023

    That makes the information even more useful.

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  • Sue Black
    Sue Black ✭
    August 8, 2023

    Since reading this conversation, I am now making sure that when I am doing reviewing and these type of modules come up as no available information, I am doing the indexing so that the info is recorded

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  • Harmon, James Bartlett
    Harmon, James Bartlett ✭✭
    August 8, 2023

    Just DO NOT index indexes. Names only with unknown numbers next to them.

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  • Sue Black
    Sue Black ✭
    August 8, 2023

    Sorry, I don't understand . I'm concerned now that I may have been doing something that I shouldn't. Please can you enlighten me.

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  • Harmon, James Bartlett
    Harmon, James Bartlett ✭✭
    August 8, 2023

    Join the club. I am still confused. Maybe we shouldn't worry about it. The search engine people use is very advanced. I will continue to enter ij because there is no Y in Dutch.

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  • Sue Black
    Sue Black ✭
    August 10, 2023

    The confusion that I was referring to was regarding the indexing of images that only have names and dates.

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  • Sue Black
    Sue Black ✭
    August 10, 2023

    Regarding Y in South African records - Y is used in Afrikaans. It is rather tricky isn't it Harmon, James Bartlett ?

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  • Áine Ní Donnghaile
    Áine Ní Donnghaile ✭✭✭✭✭
    August 10, 2023

    I believe @Harmon, James Bartlett meant to make a comment on a different thread that WAS discussing the ij.

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