Marking Oath of Allegiance as 'No, No Extractable Data' for US, New Jersey—Naturalization Records
Several time a day I see the Oath of Allegiance marked 'No, No Extractable Data'. Most of the time it looks like it is attached to Affidavit of Witness form and the indexer does not look further on the page to find the Oath of Allegiance. Please make sure the form you mark as 'No, No Extractable Data' definitely does not have Extractable Data.
BTW the Oath of Allegiance is the easiest form to index!
Answers
-
This is, unfortunately, the result of not reading the PI, not caring, or both. I've seen way too many marked NED over the years with various Naturalization projects. It's maddening, but as reviewers, we can only index it or throw the batch batch to be reidexed.
1 -
Here is a link to an alternative perspective:
what-to-do-when-records-span-2-images-or-to-view-additional-images
If I understand these instructions correctly, then an oath of allegiance that is a continuation of documentation from a previous batch, then it would be marked NED. This is a common issue that I wish had more detailed and or explicit instructions.
0 -
@James Jensen_2, no, the span-2-images instructions do not tell you to mark an indexable record as not indexable.
In all of the naturalization projects I've looked at, the project instructions indicated that Oaths are indexed as independent documents. Thus, if there is an Oath that begins in your batch, and there's no overlay on the image, then you index it. It makes no difference whether the other parts of your batch are for the same person or not.
1 -
In every naturalization project I've worked (since 2017-ish), Oaths have been indexed. I doubt that will change in the future.
1
