New England Petitions for Naturalizations 1789 - 1904
Is it correct when indexing an image that does not have the recorded date information, and the 2nd image in the batch is not the same person, to go to reference images to find and include the dates ... or any other missing info... in the record image being worked on? Or should the lines be marked Blank?
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The reference images exist so that you can complete the indexing of multi-page records -- but in most projects that include such, you're only supposed to index a record if it begins in your batch. So, as always, the answer depends on the specifics.
In the naturalization records, the date information is sometimes on a different page (and therefore image) than the rest of the record. (To complicate matters, this second page often also contains the same person's Oath, which is indexed as a separate document.) If you get a batch containing this format of documents, then there are basically two possibilities: either the whole batch is for the same person, and you don't need the reference images, or the batch contains documents about two different people, and you need the reference images to get the date for the second one. In the second case, the first image will contain the date and the Oath for one person, and the name/place/etc. (but not the date) for a second person. You index just the Oath for the first person, and get the date for the second person from the reference images. You do not use the reference images to get the name/place/etc. to go with the date on the first image, because that record does not begin in your batch.
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